About the series
Register for the webinar at: https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJIsf-CoqDgsHsK_XdaR_05_-t36OqZS7m0
Concept papers to: AI-Ready_testbeds@nsf.gov (There was an email blockage issue: If you have sent a concept paper and not gotten a response, please resend).
Please join us for a webinar to explore the AI-Ready Test Bed Planning Grants Initiative (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2024/nsf24111/nsf24111.jsp). The webinar will focus of the goals of the program and proposal requirements and allow time for proposer questions.
The AI-Ready Testbeds Planning Grant program is responsive to the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the AI EO, October 2023), which states, “Artificial intelligence (AI) holds extraordinary potential for both promise and peril. Responsible AI use has the potential to help solve urgent challenges while making our world more prosperous, productive, innovative, and secure. At the same time, irresponsible use could exacerbate societal harms such as fraud, discrimination, bias, and disinformation; displace and disempower workers; stifle competition; and pose risks to national security.” Thus, to enhance the value and responsible use of AI, it is imperative to foster a healthy infrastructure ecosystem for evaluating novel AI methods, including how these systems interact with and impact their human users. NSF has long funded research and development in AI and in infrastructure for developing novel computational methods. The AI EO tasks NSF to expand on these efforts, to “ensure the availability of testing environments, such as test beds, to support the development of safe, secure, and trustworthy AI technologies.” Through this DCL, NSF is providing funding for Planning Grants that support the science and engineering community to generate plans to enhance and expand existing test beds and infrastructure to make them “AI-ready” to support multi- and interdisciplinary research collaborations to test novel AI methods in real-time and real-world scenarios. To do this, Planning Grants should bring together teams of researchers who have expertise in AI with domain experts and staff managing existing test beds and testing infrastructure. These Planning Grants will support costs associated with the formation of teams, planning for the development of the desired and envisioned AI-Ready infrastructure, collection of preliminary pilot data, and development of governance and management plans for scalable AI-Ready Test Beds.
Register for the webinar at: https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJIsf-CoqDgsHsK_XdaR_05_-t36OqZS7m0
Concept papers to: AI-Ready_testbeds@nsf.gov (There was an email blockage issue: If you have sent a concept paper and not gotten a response, please resend).
