December 5, 2023
OMB RFI: 88 FR 75625
Organization: The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)
Respondent type: Organization>Academic institution / Think tank
Primary POC: Tessa Baker, Director of Communications (tgb5@georgetown.edu)
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University offers the
following comments in response to OMB’s Request for Comments on the Advancing
Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence Draft
Memorandum.
A policy research organization within Georgetown University, CSET provides decision-makers
with evidence-based analysis on the security implications of emerging technologies, focusing
on artificial intelligence, advanced computing, cybersecurity, and biotechnology. We appreciate
the opportunity to offer these comments. This response was compiled by the Primary POC, but
represents contributions from Mia Hoffmann, Mina Narayanan, Dahlia Peterson, Emelia
Probasco, Jack Corrigan, William Hannas, Huey-Meei Chang, Dewey Murdick, Margarita
Konaev, and others.
We address OMB’s eight questions below. In addition to OMB’s efforts to enable AI adoption
within the USG, we think it’s important that the USG devise a resourced plan to actively
monitor the adoption of these technologies by other governments (friend and foe) to ensure we
can learn from others as well as ensuring that our technological approaches (and security
practices) are calibrated to the potential offensive use of these technologies by other state and
non-state actors.
