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US Department of Homeland Security is Now Studying How to Make Use of AI
The task force was announcement by department secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Friday during a speech at a Council on Foreign Relations event:
“Our department will lead in the responsible use of AI to secure the homeland,” Mayorkas said, while also pledging to defend “against the malicious use of this transformational technology.” He added, “As we do this, we will ensure that our use of AI is rigorously tested to avoid bias and disparate impact and is clearly explainable to the people we serve….”
Mayorkas gave two examples of how the task force will help determine how AI could be used to fine-tune the agency’s work. One is to deploy AI into DHS systems that screen cargo for goods produced by forced labor. The second is to use the technology to better detect fentanyl in shipments to the U.S., as well as identifying and stopping the flow of “precursor chemicals” used to produce the dangerous drug.
Mayorkas asked Homeland Security Advisory Council Co-Chair Jamie Gorelick to study “the intersection of AI and homeland security and deliver findings that will help guide our use of it and defense against it.”
The article also notes that earlier this week America’s defense department hired a former Google AI cloud director to serve as its first advisor on AI, robotics, cloud computing and data analytics.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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