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exploring innovative ideas for 

advancing AI, including communities, 

institutions, and regions that have been 

traditionally underserved—especially 

with regard to AI research and related 

education opportunities. 

Composed of members from 

government, academia, and the private 

sector, the NAIRR Task Force is 

required to submit an interim report to 

Congress and the President by May 

2022, with a final report to be issued in 

November 2022. Find more information 

on the Task Force members and 

upcoming meetings at AI.gov. 

As outlined in § 5106(b) of Public Law 

116–283, the implementation roadmap 

developed by the Task Force should 

include the following: 

A. Goals for establishment and 

sustainment of a National Artificial 

Intelligence Research Resource and 

metrics for success; 

B. A plan for ownership and 

administration of the National Artificial 

Intelligence Research Resource, 

including: 

i. An appropriate agency or 

organization responsible for the 

implementation, deployment and 

administration of the Research 

Resource; and 

ii. A governance structure for the 

Research Resource, including oversight 

and decision-making authorities; 

C. A model for governance and 

oversight to establish strategic direction, 

make programmatic decisions, and 

manage the allocation of resources; 

D. Capabilities required to create and 

maintain a shared computing 

infrastructure to facilitate access to 

advanced computing resources for 

researchers across the country, 

including provision of curated data sets, 

compute resources, educational tools 

and services, a user-interface portal, 

secure access control, resident expertise, 

and scalability of such infrastructure; 

E. An assessment of, and 

recommended solutions to, barriers to 

the dissemination and use of highquality government data sets as part of 

the National Artificial Intelligence 

Research Resource; 

F. An assessment of security 

requirements associated with the 

National Artificial Intelligence Research 

Resource and its management of access 

controls; 

G. An assessment of privacy and civil 

rights and civil liberties requirements 

associated with the National Artificial 

Intelligence Research Resource and its 

research; 

H. A plan for sustaining the National 

Artificial Intelligence Research 

Resource, including through Federal 

funding and partnerships with the 

private sector; and 

I. Parameters for the establishment 

and sustainment of the National 

Artificial Intelligence Research 

Resource, including agency roles and 

responsibilities. 

This RFI seeks input from a broad 

array of stakeholders on the topics set 

forth below. Comments from the public 

will be used to inform the Task Force’s 

consideration of options and 

development of an implementation 

roadmap. 

Responders are invited to provide 

answers to the following questions 

(please number your responses 

accordingly): 

1. What options should the Task 

Force consider for any of roadmap 

elements A through I above, and why? 

[Please take care to annotate your 

responses to this question by indicating 

the letter(s) of the item (A through I in 

the list above) for which you are 

identifying options.] 

2. Which capabilities and services 

(see, for example, item D above) 

provided through the NAIRR should be 

prioritized? 

3. How can the NAIRR and its 

components reinforce principles of 

ethical and responsible research and 

development of AI, such as those 

concerning issues of racial and gender 

equity, fairness, bias, civil rights, 

transparency, and accountability? 

4. What building blocks already exist 

for the NAIRR, in terms of government, 

academic, or private-sector activities, 

resources, and services? 

5. What role should public-private 

partnerships play in the NAIRR? What 

exemplars could be used as a model? 

6. Where do you see limitations in the 

ability of the NAIRR to democratize 

access to AI R&D? And how could these 

limitations be overcome? 

Submitted by the National Science 

Foundation and the White House Office 

of Science and Technology Policy on 

July 19, 2021. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

Stacy Murphy, 

Operations Manager, White House Office of 

Science and Technology Policy. 

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(Arctocephalus gazelle), leopard seals 

(Hydrurga leptonyx), Weddell seals 

(Leptonychotes weddellii), crabeater 

seals (Lobodon carcinophaga), southern 

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Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living 

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and king penguins, as well as 

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their principal avian predators. Specific 

take activities associated with avian 

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individuals, tissue and egg sampling, 

diet sampling, placing of nest markers 

and censusing. The number of takes per 

annum of each avian species will be as 

follows: Chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis 

antarcticus), Ade ́lie penguin (Pygoscelis 

adeliae), Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis 

papua), king penguin (Aptenodytes 

patagonicus), brown skua(Catharacta 

lonnbergi), south polar skua (Catharacta 

maccormicki), giant petrel (macronectes 

giganteus), kelp gull (Larus 

dominicanus), blue-eyed shag 

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Location: Antarctic Peninsula region, 

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Admiralty Bay; and Lions Rump, King 

George Island. 

ASPA 108, Green Island, Berthelot 

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ASPA 112, Coppermine Peninsula, 

Robert Island 

ASPA 113, Litchfield Island, Arthur 

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ASPA 125, Fildes Peninsula, King 

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ASPA 126, Byers Peninsula, Livingston 

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ASPA 140, Shores of Port Foster, 

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Antarctic Peninsula 

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