{"id":202166,"date":"2026-04-03T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/gsa-and-the-basic-safeguarding-of-artificial-intelligence-systems\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:45:29","slug":"gsa-and-the-basic-safeguarding-of-artificial-intelligence-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/gsa-and-the-basic-safeguarding-of-artificial-intelligence-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"GSA and the Basic Safeguarding of Artificial Intelligence Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefai.org\/posts\/gsa-and-the-basic-safeguarding-of-artificial-intelligence-systems\">GSA and the Basic Safeguarding of Artificial Intelligence Systems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefai.org\/posts\/gsa-and-the-basic-safeguarding-of-artificial-intelligence-systems\">https:\/\/www.thefai.org\/posts\/gsa-and-the-basic-safeguarding-of-artificial-intelligence-systems<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-03 14:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thefai.org\">www.thefai.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The submission comments on the General Services Administration&#8217;s (GSA) proposal under 552.239-7001 to rewrite contract terms for AI purchases through the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS).<\/li>\n<li>The aim is to support secure procurement, sound data protections, usable human oversight, and greater access to American AI technologies.<\/li>\n<li>The paper argues that as it stands, the proposed clause is likely to restrict the supplier pool, slow updates, and increase costs.<\/li>\n<li>It suggests maintaining a thin, non-waivable baseline and preserving targeted customizations at the order level to align with OMB&#8217;s AI-use guidance and risk management principles.<\/li>\n<li>Recommendations include avoiding turning the MAS baseline into a burdensome process and limiting provisions that conflict with commercial licensing and multifaceted delivery models.<\/li>\n<li>Oversight and documentation requirements advised to be limited to what agencies realistically need.<\/li>\n<li>Final suggestion to GSA is to retain a minimal essential baseline, allow targeted flexibility per order, and narrow the scope of several restrictive clauses to preserve access to advanced AI technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSA and the Basic Safeguarding of Artificial Intelligence Systems https:\/\/www.thefai.org\/posts\/gsa-and-the-basic-safeguarding-of-artificial-intelligence-systems Publish Date: 2026-04-03 14:06:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/d8lrla4f\/staging\/d66b093a6c44a4b99c4db36990ad5c91d1e16d9c-3840x1920.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-202166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202168,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202166\/revisions\/202168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}