AI is a double-edged sword in that the government can see ways in which the tech can protect and also be used to attack Americans, says US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Whenever government officials talk about using AI for day-to-day operations, the usual concerns spring to mind, such as the potential for agents to misuse He also pointed to three pilot programs underway at Homeland Security that Mayorkas said help the department advance its mission. One involves using LLMs to assist in Homeland Security investigations.
"But we are now ingesting their criminal investigative reports into a database, and we will be able to use AI to identify connections that we otherwise would not be aware of," he added.
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