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CALL FOR POSTERS
AI Day for Federal Statistics: A CNSTAT Public Event

Deadline for submissions: March 25, 2024

Are you using artificial intelligence (AI) as a federal statistical agency or to support federal statistical agencies, or to synthesize federal official statistics for other purposes? Would you like to share your findings with others through a poster session? AI is the science of making machines that can act like humans in terms of performing tasks such as recognizing patterns and making decisions. It may include machine learning and deep learning, and may involve natural language processing.
 
On May 2, 2024, CNSTAT will host AI Day for Federal Statistics at the National Academy of Sciences Building. AI Day is an opportunity for federal employees to share their experiences in and plans for incorporating AI as a tool for federal programs. The goal of the event is to facilitate the appropriate use of AI within the federal government by discussing potential uses, highlight issues involved when seeking to incorporate AI, discuss practical tools, and summarize which AI tools provide the best return. The sessions will particularly focus on applications concerning federal statistics, including data collection, data processing, data generation, quality control, statistical analysis, and accounting for uncertainty.
 
Posters may include methodological issues, organizational constraints, applications, or outcomes, such as:

• Case studies of how AI is being applied within the federal government for statistics
• Tools used to create AI applications for federal statistics
• Difficulties encountered when seeking to incorporate AI for federal statistics
• Protecting privacy in the context of AI for federal statistics
• Measurement of outcomes associated with AI for federal statistics

Your application, with abstract, is due by March 25, 2024. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words. Applicants will be notified by April 8, 2024 if their poster has been selected. Posters should be at least 18 x 24 inches and no larger than 48 x 60 inches in size and brought to AI Day as physical hard copies. Please contact Madeleine Goedicke (mgoedicke@nas.edu) with questions or for additional information.
 

The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) is organizing this event in collaboration with the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM), and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). 

More information about this project

The Committee on National Statistics was established in 1972 at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to improve the statistical methods and information on which public policy decisions are based. The committee carries out studies, workshops, and other activities to foster better measures and fuller understanding of the economy, the environment, public health, crime, education, immigration, poverty, welfare, and other public policy issues. It also evaluates ongoing statistical programs and tracks the statistical policy and coordinating activities of the federal government, serving a unique role at the intersection of statistics and public policy. The committee's work is supported by a consortium of federal agencies through a National Science Foundation grant, a National Agricultural Statistics Service cooperative agreement, and several individual contracts.

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