Haines: US must ‘move with urgency’ to prepare for emerging tech threats like generative AI
"There's just no question that with generative AI you can be far more sophisticated in your production of misinformation and disinformation,” Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines warned.
BY
BRANDI VINCENT
APRIL 25, 2023
China, Russia, Iran and other nations are increasingly exploiting existing and emerging technologies — like surveillance biometrics and generative artificial intelligence — to advance authoritarianism, enable digital repression and undermine democratic governance globally, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines warned on Monday.
During an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she spotlighted those three nations’ recent models and methods for deploying and exporting capabilities to facilitate dictatorial practices. New frameworks and “built-in” technology standards will be needed to promote stronger resilience against those growing threats, she suggested.
“In my view, the intelligence community is a critical ally in the fight against authoritarianism and should contribute to the promotion of norms that help to protect against the primary tools of digital authoritarianism and repression, which are censorship, misinformation and disinformation, mass surveillance and invasive spyware used to suppress public debate,” she said.
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