WT 360: All about the government’s new data ownership boundaries in this AI age
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Ross Wilkers
Mark Whittington, vice president of government sales at Seekr’s federal business, goes over the implications of new federal rules on contractors' handling of government data within large language models.
New rules of the road are in place for how contractors can process government data in large language models as agencies look to have more control and ownership over what is theirs.
Mark “Whit” Whittington, vice president of government sales at Seekr’s federal business, has studied the new rule closely and joins for this episode with our Ross Wilkers to go over what it means for the federal industrial base.
Contractors have a list of actions they can and cannot perform under the General Services Administration’s new rule, titled “Basic Safeguarding of Data within Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence Systems.”
Whittington goes over them and, perhaps more importantly, lays out how contractors can use data before their government customers decide to take a closer look at the companies’ LLMs. He also lays out some key markers to watch as federal AI acquisition unfolds in the future.