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Responsible AI Guidelines
As part of its mission to accelerate adoption of commercial technology within the Department of Defense (DoD), the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) launched a strategic initiative in March 2020 to integrate the DoD’s Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its commercial prototyping and acquisition programs. Drawing upon best practices from government, non-profit, academic, and industry partners, DIU explored methods for implementing these principles in several of its AI prototype projects. The result is a set of Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI) Guidelines. Read More
#dod, #ethicsThis Group Pushed More AI in US Security—and Boosted Big Tech
The National Security Commission on AI included members from Oracle, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Some of its recommendations are already federal law.
ORACLE, GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, and Amazon are archenemies in the competitive cloud computing market. But in late 2018, top executives from the four companies, including future Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, teamed up on an unpaid side gig: advising the president and US Congress on how artificial intelligence can bolster national security.
The executives were named to the National Security Commission on AI, created by Congress. Its chair was Eric Schmidt, previously CEO of Google, who later said it would help the US “harness this transformative technology to benefit both our economic and national security interests.” Read More
Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns
Three years ago, the company walked away from a Defense Department project after employees objected to it. Now the company is working on a new proposal for the Pentagon.
Three years after an employee revolt forced Google to abandon work on a Pentagon program that used artificial intelligence, the company is aggressively pursuing a major contract to provide its technology to the military.
The company’s plan to land the potentially lucrative contract, known as the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, could raise a furor among its outspoken work force and test the resolve of management to resist employee demands.
In 2018, thousands of Google employees signed a letter protesting the company’s involvement in Project Maven, a military program that uses artificial intelligence to interpret video images and could be used to refine the targeting of drone strikes. Google management caved and agreed to not renew the contract once it expired. Read More
US Leadership in Artificial Intelligence is Still Possible
Open-source algorithms are disrupting the meaning of global artificial intelligence (AI) leadership. Here’s how the US government can use the next wave of AI to its advantage.
What does it mean to be first in developing applications of artificial intelligence (AI), and does it matter? In a recent interview, the former Chief Software Officer of the U.S. Air Force Nicolas Chaillan stated that he resigned in part because he believed that, “We have no competing chance against China in fifteen to twenty years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over.” He reasoned that a failure of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to follow through on stated intentions to build up in AI and cyber means many departments within DoD still operate at what Chaillan considers a “kindergarten level.” Those are strong words, but Chaillan’s overall assessment misses the mark—the United States becoming an AI also-ran is not a foregone conclusion. Leadership in AI is not necessarily achieved by the first adopter.
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JAIC chief wants AI progress to be ‘slow and incremental’
The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is looking to field AI across the military slowly, so products can be broadly usable across combatant commands, the center’s director said Friday.
That mindset appears to be different from some innovative upstart organizations within the government that have emphasized the private-sector mentality of speed and agility in finding solutions to pressing challenges. Growth for the center’s AI tools will come from solutions to common challenges that senior leaders across the military face, JAIC Director Lt. Gen. Michael Groen said during the Billington Cybersecurity Summit. Read More
Pentagon Experimenting With AI To ‘Predict The Future’
The Pentagon is reportedly experimenting with AI and other cutting edge technology in the hope of being able to ‘predict the future’.
Turns out you don’t need a Tardis anymore to see into the future, as the US has come up with the possible technological solution to actually be able to ‘see days in advance’, reports suggest.
The Pentagon, headquarter building of the United States Department of Defence, is said to have conducted a series of tests in an attempt to ‘achieve information dominance’ and ‘decision-making superiority’. Read More
Cheat-maker brags of computer-vision auto-aim that works on “any game”
When it comes to the cat-and-mouse game of stopping cheaters in online games, anti-cheat efforts often rely in part on technology that ensures the wider system running the game itself isn’t compromised. On the PC, that can mean so-called “kernel-level drivers” which monitor system memory for modifications that could affect the game’s intended operation. On consoles, that can mean relying on system-level security that prevents unsigned code from being run at all (until and unless the system is effectively hacked, that is).
But there’s a growing category of cheating methods that can now effectively get around these forms of detection in many first-person shooters. By using external tools like capture cards and “emulated input” devices, along with machine learning-powered computer vision software running on a separate computer, these cheating engines totally circumvent the secure environments set up by PC and console game makers. This is forcing the developers behind these games to look to alternate methods to detect and stop these cheaters in their tracks. Read More
DOD Launches Project to Quickly Shift AI from Labs to Real-World Warfighting
The Defense Department has a new plan to speed up its adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. The A-I and Data Acceleration Initiative – or ADA – formally launched this week. It includes four lines of effort, all designed to make sure DoD isn’t just working with A-I in experimental settings, but moving it into practical applications in combatant commands around the world. Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu has details. Read More
SecDef Austin Speaks at AI Technology Summit
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivered remarks at the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence’s 2021 Global Emerging Technology Summit.
Austin discusses some of the changes that he sees coming to the Department of Defense with respect to artificial intelligence, and the way they represent changes to some old ways of thinking. Read More
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