The Trump administration’s plans for new strictures on the executive branch’s use of scientific research includes a stepped-up emphasis on the use of artificial intelligence.
In guidance dated Monday, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, set an Aug. 22 deadline for EPA, NOAA and other agencies to report on their implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order issued last month titled “Restoring Gold Standard Science.”
As implementation proceeds, Kratsios wrote, agency staffers “must adopt streamlined approaches that achieve the goals of Gold Standard Science while minimizing administrative burdens, avoiding excessive bureaucratic requirements that can divert resources and impede scientific progress.”
To that end, he added, agencies should explore the use of AI and other automated tools to manage conflict-of-interest disclosures, quantify uncertainty and standardize “transparent data reporting.”
