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. |
Democrats vow to protect Speaker Mike Johnson from being ousted from office5 takeaways from the global negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollutionCRAIG BROWN: The killer who wants to be Donald Trump's running mateEncino out of Kentucky Derby, Epic Ride joins the 20Haiti prime minister: transitional council names new leader'Obsessed' ex2 men are charged with cutting down famous 150Lilly rides Mounjaro, Zepbound to betterImmigrant's $1.3B Powerball win spotlights the Iu Mien communityG7 nations commit to phasing out coal by 2035 but give Japan some flexibility