Information & Ethics committee  It might be outside of the scope of my area of expertise to identify ways in which they could be improved. I would, however, say that in the paper you're citing, the issue they talk about there is “domain shift”, which is the fact that very often the settings in which some of these algorithms are tested are radically different from the settings in which they are deployed.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. That's an excellent question. The index doesn't look in too much detail at how much investment is being put into that area at the moment, but interest is growing. One thing I will note on the data I cited from the NSIT FRT test is that the data I looked at—

Information & Ethics committee  Let me try once again. Is it better now?

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon. I'd like to begin by thanking the chair and members of the committee for the invitation to speak today. I'm Nestor Maslej, and currently I serve as a research associate for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. I am also a co-author and the lead researcher for the AI Index.