NIST Launches ARIA, a New Program to Advance Sociotechnical Testing and Evaluation for AI

Published on May 31, 2024

NIST’s new Assessing Risks and Impacts of AI (ARIA) program will assess the societal risks and impacts of artificial intelligence systems (i.e., what happens when people interact with AI regularly in realistic settings). The program will help develop ways to quantify how a system functions within societal contexts once it is deployed. ARIA’s results will support the U.S. AI Safety Institute’s testing to help build the foundation for trustworthy AI systems.

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