With President Joe Biden‘s massive infrastructure bill gaining traction, there’s plenty of talk in the federal government about the role of tech in everyday operations. Ed Felten, director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, hopes that can mean a revamp for federal AI policy in the coming months.

“Tech can help the government do its jobs, do its mission more effectively,” Felten, who is also the host of the recently-launched podcast A.I. Nation, told Technical.ly. “Government can have better visibility into what’s happening, more ability to shape and target the programs that are going on.”

Felten, a current member of the executive branch’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer during the Obama administration, said it’s still too early to know how the Biden administration will bring AI into its overall strategy. But things are already different than they were under former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. In his time in the White House in 2015 and 2016, he said everyone was just getting started on understanding AI and developing a strategy. In the years since, he’s seen AI grow in industry and an uptick in uses, such as in facial recognition software.

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