NIST and AI Safety - Footnote 6

Note: The claim says NIST has conducted computing research since the mid-1960s, but the source says "Automatic Data Processing (ADP) standards development at NBS mandated by Brooks Act (P. L. 89-306)" in 1965. This is not necessarily research. The claim says the agency's Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) built capabilities in cryptography, biometrics, and data processing standards through the 1990s and 2000s, but the source does not explicitly state that ITL built capabilities in these areas. It only lists events related to these topics. The claim says the agency's Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) built capabilities in cryptography, biometrics, and data processing standards through the 1990s and 2000s, establishing foundations for later AI work, but the source does not mention that these capabilities established foundations for later AI work.