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DARPA and the U.S. National Science Foundation jointly developed AI Forge in close collaboration with the Center for AI Standards and Innovation at NIST, to align government, academia, and industry around forward-looking AI research.

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AI Forge Cycle 1 closed
Three research thrusts

15 Critical AI Challenges.

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AI Interpretability

  1. 01Scaling Causal Interpretability for Predictive Diagnostics
  2. 02Black-Box Analysis of Long-Horizon Failures for Verifiable Accountability
  3. 03Automated Interpretability at Scale
  4. 04Agentic AI Interpretability for Auditable Autonomy
  5. 05Evaluation of AI Systems for Scientific Discovery

AI Control

  1. 01Verifiable Steerability of AI Models
  2. 02AI Provenance for Agile and Reliable Deployment
  3. 03Secure Sandboxing for Agentic AI
  4. 04Operational Runtime Control and Automated Intervention
  5. 05Predictive Evaluation for Mission Assurance

Adversarial Robustness

  1. 01Resilience to Training Data Compromise
  2. 02Defending Interactive AI from Adaptive Adversaries
  3. 03Active Defense Protocols for Multi-Agent Systems
  4. 04Hardening Continual Learning Systems
  5. 05Credible Benchmarking for Adversarial Robustness

What’s next.

The next AI Forge schedule will be published by September 14.

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