Insider Q&A: CIA's chief technologist's cautious embrace of generative AI
Time:2024-05-21 08:55:13 Source:travelViews(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:Messi in and Dybala out in Argentina squad for pre
Next:Student fatally shot, suspect detained at Georgia's Kennesaw State University
You may also like
- Minnesota Uber and Lyft driver pay package beats deadline to win approval in Legislature
- Xi inspects Changsha in central China's Hunan Province
- North Korea is buying Chinese surveillance cameras in a push to tighten control, report says
- Bank of America's Q1 profits fall 18% on higher expenses, charge
- Devout Christian doctor, 68, who punched dementia
- Apprentice fans surprised to see cameraman filming from a wheelchair
- Beijing half marathon results under investigation after runners appear to hand win to Chinese star
- China condemns attack on Iranian embassy in Syria
- OpenAI pauses ChatGPT voice after Scarlett Johansson comparisons