Eric Syphard
Eric Syphard is a Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he leads AI engineering initiatives for national security and government clients. He is best known for his work on AI evaluation and risk management, particularly around open-weight models, and has publicly discussed emerging cybersecurity threats from foreign-developed AI systems. He holds a Master of Science in Statistics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and previously worked as a biostatistician at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
“Booz Allen is building in-house AI evaluation capabilities so it can independently test open-weight models before putting them into customer systems.”
Source→“By early September, officials must issue policy governing AI use in national security systems; by early October, standardized testing, evaluation, and risk-management baselines are due.”
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