{"id":3625,"date":"2024-04-05T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aitesonics.com\/even-the-cia-is-developing-an-ai-chatbot-192358767\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T08:54:10","slug":"even-the-cia-is-developing-an-ai-chatbot-192358767","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aitesonics.com\/even-the-cia-is-developing-an-ai-chatbot-192358767\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the CIA is developing an AI chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"
The CIA and other US intelligence agencies will soon have an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT<\/a>. The program, revealed on Tuesday by Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>, will train on publicly available data and provide sources alongside its answers so agents can confirm their validity. The aim is for US spies to more easily sift through ever-growing troves of information, although the exact nature of what constitutes \u201cpublic data\u201d could spark some thorny privacy issues.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from newspapers and radio, to newspapers and television, to newspapers and cable television, to basic internet, to big data, and it just keeps going,\u201d Randy Nixon, the CIA\u2019s director of Open Source Enterprise, said in an interview with Bloomberg<\/em>. \u201cWe have to find the needles in the needle field.\u201d Nixon\u2019s division plans to distribute the AI tool to US intelligence agencies \u201csoon.\u201d<\/p>\n Nixon says the tool will allow agents to look up information, ask follow-up questions and summarize daunting masses of data. \u201cThen you can take it to the next level and start chatting and asking questions of the machines to give you answers, also sourced,\u201d he said. \u201cOur collection can just continue to grow and grow with no limitations other than how much things cost.\u201d<\/p>\n The CIA hasn\u2019t specified which AI tool (if any) it\u2019s using as the foundation for its chatbot. Once the tool is available, the entire 18-agency US intelligence community will have access to it. However, lawmakers and the public won\u2019t be able to use it.<\/p>\n Nixon said the tool would follow US privacy laws. However, he didn\u2019t state how the government would safeguard it from leaking onto the internet or using information that\u2019s sketchily acquired but technically \u201cpublic.\u201d Federal agencies<\/a> (including the Secret Service<\/a>) and police forces<\/a> have been caught bypassing warrants and using commercial marketplaces to buy troves of data. These have included phones\u2019 locations, which the government can technically describe as open-source.<\/p>\n \u201cThe scale of how much we collect and what we collect on has grown astronomically over the last 80-plus years, so much so that this could be daunting and at times unusable for our consumers,\u201d Nixon said. He envisions the tool allowing a scenario \u201cwhere the machines are pushing you the right information, one where the machine can auto-summarize, group things together.\u201d<\/p>\n The US government\u2019s decision to move forward with the tool could be influenced by China, which has stated<\/a> that it wants to surpass its rivals and become the world\u2019s de facto AI leader by 2030.<\/p>\n The US has taken steps to counter China\u2019s influence while examining AI\u2019s domestic and economic risks. Last year, the Biden administration launched a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights<\/a>, defining the White House\u2019s generative AI values. It has also pushed for an AI risk management framework<\/a> and invested $140 million in creating new AI and machine learning research institutes<\/a>. In July, President Biden met with leaders from AI companies, who agreed to (non-binding) statements that they would develop their products ethically<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The CIA and other US intelligence agencies will soon have an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT. The program, revealed on Tuesday by Bloomberg, will train on publicly available data and provide sources alongside its answers so agents can confirm their validity. The aim is for US spies to more easily sift through ever-growing troves of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,410,428,5884,48,5883,95,130],"tags":[143,413,432,5886,59,5885,101,134],"yoast_head":"\n