UC Berkeley School of Information

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released the first-ever National Security Memorandum (NSM) on artificial intelligence and the accompanying Framework to Advance AI Governance and Risk Management in National Security (AI Framework), which lay out guidelines for promoting the safe and democratic use of AI in United States national security.

“This is a significant step,” said Professor Deirdre Mulligan, who spent the past two years working on the Administration’s AI agenda in the White House’s Office of Science Technology and Policy (OSTP).

From election forecasts and pandemic dashboards to stock market charts and scientific figures, many people trust data visualizations as objective truths and neutral representations of reality. However, a study led by Georgia Tech and University of California, Berkeley researchers shows that annotations can lead people to draw different conclusions from the same visualizations. Their findings suggest readers should look beyond the presented data to make informed decisions.