White House Issues Final Guidance on AI Use Case Repository for Federal Agencies

The White House has finalized new guidance for federal agencies' 2024 artificial intelligence use case inventories. The guidance sets a firm deadline of December 16, 2024, for agencies to submit their inventories to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

The White House has introduced a more detailed process than in previous years. Agencies must provide details about their AI usage through an OMB-managed form and then upload a “machine-readable CSV” of all publicly releasable use cases to their websites.

“The Director of the OMB is charged with issuing instructions to agencies for the collection, reporting, and publication of information about agency AI use cases, including information on agencies’ management of risks from the use of AI,” the document, dated August 14th, 2024, reads.

Agencies are required to provide basic summary information for all AI use cases, including the AI's intended purpose, expected benefits, and outputs.

For a specific subset of use cases, the OMB mandates additional reporting on aspects such as development, data, code, and AI infrastructure.

The finalized guidance also instructs agencies to assess each current and planned AI use to determine if it falls under the categories of safety-impacting or rights-impacting. By December, agency Chief AI Officers (CAIOs) must publish a complete list of these uses on their websites.