As the federal government approaches the halfway point in FY 2024 without congressional budget approval, the White House has introduced the spending plan for FY 2025.
Commerce Department requests include $76 million of new spending on to "safeguard and promote Artificial Intelligence."
The US AI Safety Institute at NIST would receive $50 million to continue its work of creating guidelines, tools, test environments, benchmarks, and best practices for evaluating and mitigating dangerous capabilities and conducting evaluations including red-teaming to identify and mitigate AI risk.
The Institute will develop technical guidance on issues such as authenticating content created by humans, watermarking AI-generated content, evaluating and red teaming models, mitigating safety and security risks of models, and enabling adoption of privacy-preserving AI, and will serve as a driver of the future workforce for safe and trusted AI.
The budget also allocates $8.8 million to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and $3 million to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to carry out work on AI.
The Budget provides $223 million to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Facing rapid advances in technology, China’s continued efforts at illicit technology transfer to enable its military-civil fusion (MCF), and Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, these resources would help BIS expand export enforcement domestically and overseas, bolster the Bureau’s capacity to identify sensitive, dual-use technologies eligible for export control and evaluate the effectiveness of export controls, and increase regional expertise to enhance cooperation on export controls with allies and partners.
ITA would receive $646 million, including $108 million for Industry and Analysis, $130 million for Enforcement and Compliance and $29 million for Global Markets. In addition, the budget provides $5 million for ITA “to effectively implement new requirements under the Executive Order 14105, Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern (Outbound Investment Executive Order), ensuring adequate resources to provide the sectoral and commercial expertise, industry connectivity, and actionable recommendations to ensure that the US Government can understand and act on information received from covered transactions while also minimizing the risk of unintended disruptions to US investment,” according to a Commerce fact sheet.
Among funds requested by the State Department and USAID are:
The request calls for a reduction in the FY2025 budget for the US Trade Representative’s Office to $61 million. That includes $15 million for the Trade Enforcement Trust Fund.
The Agriculture Department’s Foreign Agricultural Service would receive $245 million, including $86 million for Trade Policy, $79 million for Trade Supporting Initiatives and $46 million for Market Analysis.
For more information on the President’s FY 2025 Budget, please visit whitehouse.gov/omb/budget.
Compare to 2024 Budget requests: [Here]
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