New software developed by BAE Systems could help the Department of Defense build confidence in decisions and intelligence produced by machine learning algorithms, the company claims.

BAE Systems said it recently delivered its new MindfuL software program to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in a July 14 announcement. Developed in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the software is designed to increase transparency in machine learning systems—artificial intelligence algorithms that learn and change over time as they are fed ever more data—by auditing them to provide insights about how it reached its decisions. Read More