Transparency is key as AI gets smarter, experts say
Cybersecurity panelists spotlighted multiple risks and threats posed by emerging frontier AI applications.
To gain the U.S. government’s trust, advanced AI systems must be engineered from the outset with reliable components offering explainability and transparency, senior federal and industry officials said Friday.
“This [topic] is something I think about a lot,” the CIA’s chief AI officer Lakshmi Raman noted at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit. “And in our [community], it’s about how artificial intelligence can assist and be an intelligence amplifier with the human during the process, keeping their eyes on everything that’s happening and ensuring that, at the end, they’re able to help.”
During a panel, Raman and other current and former government officials underscored the importance of guardrails and oversight — particularly as the U.S. military and IC adopt the technology for an ever-increasing range of operations, and experts predict major breakthroughs will emerge in certain areas within the next few years.
“Trust is such a critical dimension for intelligence,” said Sean Batir, a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency alum and AWS principal tech lead for frontier AI, quantum and robotics.
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