February 26, 2025
Committee Appointees
Dustin Burns and Sam Spevack join U.S. group for developing artificial intelligence standards.
Exponent's Dustin Burns and Sam Spevack have joined the American National Standards Institute's InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Artificial Intelligence Committee. The INCITS AI committee is the U.S. standards body for AI and serves as the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the international standards body for AI, International Standards Organization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1 Subcommittee (SC) 42 on Artificial Intelligence.
As part of the INCITS group, Drs. Burns and Spevack will help ensure that the U.S. perspective is included in any international standards developed related to AI in the future. Dr. Burns will serve as Exponent's lead representative with Dr. Spevack as alternate.
"I'm incredibly excited to join the INCITS Artificial Intelligence Committee," said Dr. Burns. "AI has the potential to transform so many aspects of business, and I'm passionate about advancing the technical frontiers of this field. I'm eager to contribute to developing standards that will drive innovation to enhance the robustness, fairness, and security of AI systems. It's an honor to be involved in such important work."
Dr. Burns has also joined the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Working Group 2 on Data for AI, covering topics like data quality for machine learning, synthetic data, and the AI data lifecycle. Dr. Spevack has joined ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Working Group 4 on use cases for AI, covering evaluation metrics, human-machine teaming, and AI system lifecycles.
The ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 was established in 1987 and focuses on standardization in the field of information technology (IT). Its scope includes developing, maintaining, and promoting standards that address the broad spectrum of IT, from foundational technologies to emerging innovations.
SC 42 is dedicated to AI and was formed in 2017 to help develop standards for AI and AI applications. The subcommittee consists of several working groups and joint working groups that examine many aspects of AI, including foundational standards, data, trustworthiness, use cases, computational approaches, testing AI systems, AI health informatics, AI functional safety, natural language processing, and conformity assessment schemes for AI.
Learn more about the committee's work here.
