(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- On the 270-day mark since President Biden’s executive order 14110, the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced new guidance and software to help improve the safety, security, and trustworthiness of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

The Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released three final guidance documents that were first presented in April 2024 for public comment, as well as a draft guidance document from the U.S. AI Safety Institute that is intended to help mitigate risks. NIST is also releasing a software package designed to measure how adversarial attacks can degrade the performance of an AI system.

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