NIST Launches AI Standards “Zero Drafts” Pilot Project; Welcomes Input 

Responding to the need to propel AI innovation by developing AI standards more quickly while encouraging openness and collaboration – incorporating a wide range of expertise – NIST is launching its AI Standards Zero Drafts Pilot Project

As discussed at NIST’s AI symposium in September, this initiative will pilot a new process of distilling stakeholder views into “zero drafts”—thorough but preliminary proposals that will be submitted into the private sector-led standardization process to be developed into voluntary consensus standards.

NIST has proposed initial topics related to testing, evaluation, verification, and validation; AI design and architecture concepts; transparency documentation; among others. NIST solicits private and public sector input on priority topics and scoping. For each topic selected by NIST based on this feedback, the agency anticipates releasing a concept paper for public comment. NIST then will propose and revise a document to be submitted to the formal standardization process.

More details are available on a dedicated NIST web page. Please send any suggestions via email to [email protected].