AI GovCast: NSF CAIO Eyes Skilled AI Workforce, Data Analytics Partnership

National Science Foundation CDO and Chief AI Officer Dorothy Aronson is establishing a new organization that will unify departments within the agency. While the agency is standing up some critical efforts under the White House executive order such as the National AI Research Resource pilot, Aronson highlights some of her initial priorities for the role that include merging the CAIO, CDO and CISO under the Office of the CIO. Aronson also discusses the importance of preparing data for advanced analytics and AI as well as the significance of providing researchers with access to clean data layers.