Insider Q&A: CIA's chief technologist's cautious embrace of generative AI
Time:2024-05-21 15:56:22 Source:worldViews(143)
Knowledge advantage can save lives, win wars and avert disaster. At the Central Intelligence Agency, basic artificial intelligence – machine learning and algorithms – has long served that mission. Now, generative AI is joining the effort.
CIA Director William Burns says AI tech will augment humans, not replace them. The agency’s first chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani, is marshaling the tools. There’s considerable urgency: Adversaries are already spreading AI-generated deepfakes aimed at undermining U.S. interests.
A former Silicon Valley CEO who helmed successful startups, Mulchandani was named to the job in 2022 after a stint at the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center.
Among projects he oversees: A ChatGPT-like generative AI application that draws on open-source data (meaning unclassified, public or commercially available). Thousands of analysts across the 18-agency U.S. intelligence community use it. Other CIA projects that use large-language models are, unsurprisingly, secret.
Previous:Philippines blames China for loss of giant clams in disputed shoal and urges environmental inquiry
Next:Storms damage homes in Oklahoma and Kansas. But in Houston, most power is restored
You may also like
- Yvette Fielding says her Most Haunted co
- Horoscope today: Daily guide to what the stars have in store for YOU
- Court in the Central African Republic issues international arrest warrant for former president
- Some North Carolina abortion pill restrictions are unlawful, federal judge says
- Liverpool confirms Arne Slot as Jurgen Klopp's replacement
- Hoda Kotb pokes fun at Today co
- Astros to option slumping 2020 AL MVP José Abreu to their spring training facility in Florida
- Kansas has new abortion laws while Louisiana may block exceptions to its ban
- Who is Jacob Zuma, the former South African president disqualified from next week's election?