Monday, June 3, 2019

The CIA Wants To Deploy Artificial Intelligence In An Ethical Manner?

The logo appears on the lobby floor of the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Va. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/File

NextGov: How the CIA is Working to Ethically Deploy Artificial Intelligence

As the agency utilizes new technology, insiders are thinking critically about issues around privacy and bias.

As the Central Intelligence Agency harnesses machine learning and artificial intelligence to better meet its mission, insiders are aggressively addressing issues around bias and ethics intrinsic to the emerging tech.

“We at the agency have over 100 AI initiatives that we are working on and that’s going to continue to be the case,” Benjamin Huebner, the CIA’s privacy and civil liberties officer said Friday at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution in Washington. “That’s a big complicated issue that we are very much thinking about all the time.”

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WNU Editor: What struck me about this article is the CIA's admission that they currently have over 100 AI initiatives.

2 comments:

Bob Huntley said...

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B.Poster said...

How exactly do the unintelligent as in US (un)Intelligence deploy anything intelligent? By definition the den of political hacks and incompetent boobs who make up US (un)intelligence cannot be expected to implement anything that is intelligent. At best, it won't work and it will cost a great deal of money. At worst and unfortunately more likely, such efforts will fail, cost an enormous amount of money, and ultimately make things worse.