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Thursday, June 23, 2022

Power and Pitfalls of AI for US Intelligence.

Generalized but reasonable piece on the challenges involved.   More links in the original. 

The Power and Pitfalls of AI for U.S. Intelligence     By Wired

June 23, 2022

While artificial intelligence that can mimic humanlike sentience remains theoretical and impractical for most intelligence applications, machine learning is addressing fundamental challenges created by the volume and velocity of information that analysts  ... 

From cyber operations to disinformation, artificial intelligence extends the reach of national security threats that can target individuals and whole societies with precision, speed, and scale. As the U.S. competes to stay ahead, the intelligence community is grappling with the fits and starts of the impending revolution brought on by AI.

The U.S. intelligence community has launched initiatives to grapple with AI's implications and ethical uses, and analysts have begun to conceptualize how AI will revolutionize their discipline, yet these approaches and other practical applications of such technologies by the IC have been largely fragmented.

As experts sound the alarm that the U.S. is not prepared to defend itself against AI by its strategic rival, China, Congress has called for the IC to produce a plan for integration of such technologies into workflows to create an "AI digital ecosystem" in the 2022 Intelligence Authorization Act.

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