Lee Ferran
If 2023 was the year that OpenAI’s ChatGPT exploded onto the public scene, 2024 was the year the US military and Intelligence Community began carefully wading into the potential of generative AI.
Officials have said that kind of tech could be used for everything from streamlining acquisition to sifting through a mountain of open source data for relatively low-level intelligence analysis. And while the Pentagon has grown to trust generative AI enough to build a new “cell” around it’s use, many officials are still cautious because the cutting edge technology is not without its risks, especially its propensity to “hallucinate” false information.
Echoing many other officials this year, Jimmy Hall, chief information officer in the State Department’s intelligence wing, said last week, “We want to be able to use a gen AI,” but the office is “just not ready.”
“As we step our way through, we don’t want to be so quick to the trigger that we put our situation where civil liberties or privacy or something else is violated,” Hall said in a webinar put on by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. “So we’re really behind the scenes testing a few items, mechanisms, systems, tools, before we’re ready to roll that out. But we do want to take advantage of emerging technology.”
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