IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — Eight United States national laboratories and research centers have launched an initiative to accelerate the deployment of artificial intelligence across the Department of Energy complex.
The inaugural National Laboratory AI Roundtable, hosted by the Idaho National Laboratory, brought AI leaders together to align standards, security frameworks and operational use cases for AI in research environments. The event included sessions on enterprise architecture, legal guardrails and metrics for measuring success.
Attendees included representatives from Argonne, Idaho, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest and Sandia national laboratories, as well as the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Chris Ritter, INL’s director of the Scientific Computing and AI division, delivered the keynote address, emphasizing the risks and strategic opportunities of AI in national lab operations.
Participants shared AI implementation road maps, security models and architectural frameworks that participants could use or adapt across their respective labs. They also committed to ongoing collaboration, with plans to involve additional laboratories and reconvene virtually in November to draft joint recommendations for DOE leadership.
The roundtable was organized by INL Director of Intelligent Automation and Advanced Analytics Carl Fennen and INL data scientist Doug Rahden.
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