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.
Related articles:
Related suggestion:
Reality bites in Asia over NATO pushSky Pool links residential blocks in south LondonIMF to downgrade forecast for over 140 economies amid RussiaHeavy rains kill 253 in S. AfricaWHO endorses China's Sinopharm COVID2023 Edition of 'Xi Jinping on the Belt and Road Initiative' PublishedXiplomacy: ChinaChina replaces Germany as UK's biggest import market: ONSUK PM fined over COVIDLate night shooting in Philadelphia leaves at least three dead, 11 injured
2.5172s , 6500.9921875 kb
Copyright © 2024 Powered by Insider Q&A: CIA's chief technologist's cautious embrace of generative AI ,Cosmic Chronicle news portal