Brave new world: America’s spies preparing new rules for using AI and dataA sign outside the National Security Administration campus in Fort Meade, Md., is seen June 6, 2013. The American public is broadly skeptical of common intelligence practices and of the need to sacrifice civil liberties for security. That’s according to …The U.S.
“Where we’re going to start is, a little bit, very high level,” Mr. Beiler said Wednesday at the Special Competitive Studies Project’s AI expo, being held this week in Washington. “Because, again, we don’t want to be dictatorial because we’re still figuring a lot of this stuff out.” The law directs the intelligence community to make rules establishing minimum guidelines for AI models’ performance and for tracking agencies’ dependence on the models. The law also requires documentation of data used to train models, documentation of capabilities procured from third parties, and guidance for obtaining and using models previously trained by third parties.
“We really do need a mindset shift when it comes to how we are acquiring it, so that we’re not taking 18 different approaches and then having set up the contracts 18 different ways, hopefully, ultimately, so that we can share internally,” Mr. Barrett told attendees at the AI expo. The intelligence community published a report in June 2023 acknowledging its collection of commercially available information that recommended changes to the U.S. government’s approach. The report detailed certain private sector contracts enabling the government’s access to data, such as the FBI’s work with the company ZeroFox for “social media alerting.”