Artificial Intelligence
AI has a political problem
The military is growing increasingly enthusiastic about AI. The public, less so.
DOD’s new AI and data strategy gives industry a challenge: share
Implementing the new strategy will require companies to work together in ways they never have before.
Agencies get marching orders as White House issues AI-safety directive
NIST is ordered to draft red-teaming requirements, NSF to work on cryptography, and DHS to apply them to critical infrastructure.
Microchip breakthrough may reshape the future of AI
IBM’s new NorthPole may enable smarter, more efficient, network-independent devices that may even help the U.S. win the microchip war against China.
The CIA’s data-challenged AI imperative
Mastering the technology is key to being able to “disrupt those entities that do not,” said an agency cyber policy official.
Swamped with cybersecurity data, NGA hopes ChatGPT-like tools can help
The mapping agency is trying to keep tabs on 70,000 events per second.
NSA to stand up AI security center
Securing AI means preventing it “from learning, doing, and revealing the wrong thing,” Gen. Paul Nakasone said.
Taiwan is using generative AI to fight Chinese disinfo
But LLM models will enable new adversaries as well as allies, top intelligence official warns.
US must harness generative AI in competition against China, think tank warns
The Pentagon recently launched a task force to explore how to incorporate generative AI, but a new report notes it could be useful across a wide range of government activities.
How China could use generative AI to manipulate the globe on Taiwan
Generative AI could allow China to radically improve and scale up disinformation efforts, just in time for the Taiwanese presidential election, a new report argues.
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Russian military actors went to Niger, Mali close to coup dates, data shows
A few Russians seem to have picked an odd time for sightseeing in Africa.
The Senate's defense-policy bill looks for threats in the rear-view mirror
The upper house orders up an investigation of the 2020 SolarWinds hack while saying all but nothing about AI.
New Chinese research examines how to get drones to target without GPS
But camera data can’t tell a drone whether hitting a target is a bad idea.
New AI laser system to guard US capital region from unauthorized aircraft
‘The first line of defense is actually that they will beam a laser at the cockpit of the aircraft.’
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