The Justice Division has named Princeton expertise regulation professor and researcher Jonathan Mayer as its first chief AI officer because it explores how AI impacts regulation enforcement.
Legal professional Normal Merrick Garland mentioned in an announcement that the appointment of a synthetic intelligence officer is necessary for the division to “maintain tempo with the speedy evolution of scientific and technological growth.”
Certainly one of Mayer's duties can be to construct a group of technical and coverage specialists round cybersecurity and AI. Mayer can even function the division's chief science and expertise advisor and assist recruit expertise expertise.
Authorities companies have been tasked by the Biden administration's govt order on AI to help AI expertise and create pointers for utilizing the expertise of their companies. The manager order additionally contains setting requirements to make sure equity when AI is used for sentencing, parole and supervision — actions that fall beneath the purview of the Justice Division.
Mayer held expertise positions in authorities earlier than his new gig on the Justice Division, based on his biography from Princeton's Middle for Data Know-how Coverage. He served as an adviser on expertise regulation and coverage to Vice President Kamala Harris when she was nonetheless within the Senate. Mayer additionally served as chief technologist within the Federal Communications Fee's enforcement workplace.