NSA Is Starting an AI Security Center (securityweek.com) 13
The Associated Press reports: The National Security Agency is starting an artificial intelligence security center -- a crucial mission as AI capabilities are increasingly acquired, developed and integrated into U.S. defense and intelligence systems, the agency's outgoing director announced Thursday. Army Gen. Paul Nakasone said the center would be incorporated into the NSA's Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, where it works with private industry and international partners to harden the U.S. defense-industrial base against threats from adversaries led by China and Russia.
Nakasone was asked about using AI to automate the analysis of threat vectors and red-flag alerts -- and he reminded the audience that U.S. intelligence and defense agencies already use AI. "AI helps us, But our decisions are made by humans. And that's an important distinction," Nakasone said. "We do see assistance from artificial intelligence. But at the end of the day, decisions will be made by humans and humans in the loop."
Nakasone said it would become "NSA's focal point for leveraging foreign intelligence insights, contributing to the development of best practices guidelines, principles, evaluation, methodology and risk frameworks" for both AI security and the goal of promoting the secure development and adoption of AI within "our national security systems and our defense industrial base." He said it would work closely with U.S. industry, national labs, academia and the Department of Defense as well as international partners.
Nakasone was asked about using AI to automate the analysis of threat vectors and red-flag alerts -- and he reminded the audience that U.S. intelligence and defense agencies already use AI. "AI helps us, But our decisions are made by humans. And that's an important distinction," Nakasone said. "We do see assistance from artificial intelligence. But at the end of the day, decisions will be made by humans and humans in the loop."
Nakasone said it would become "NSA's focal point for leveraging foreign intelligence insights, contributing to the development of best practices guidelines, principles, evaluation, methodology and risk frameworks" for both AI security and the goal of promoting the secure development and adoption of AI within "our national security systems and our defense industrial base." He said it would work closely with U.S. industry, national labs, academia and the Department of Defense as well as international partners.
âoe⦠a crucial mission?â (Score:1)
I think not.
How does this not exist already? (Score:3)
Surely they should have made this years ago!
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They surely did. They just decided to make it known for some reason.
All board the AI hypet rain! (Score:3)
Although the NSA is a bit late to the party if you ask me.
*hype train (Score:2)
./ needs an edit button.
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I think I will skip this one. They probably thought so too until some politicians got involved.
But this is the smart solution: They do a new "center", hire new people for it and otherwise can completely ignore the current moronic hype.
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Never too late to join the NVDA bull bandwagon, especially when you!re funded by tax payers.
haha you believe that shit? (Score:2)
Army Gen. Paul Nakasone said the center would be incorporated into the NSA's Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, where it works with private industry and international partners to harden the U.S. defense-industrial base against threats from adversaries led by China and Russia.
NSA code will be incorporated in popular "AI" tools so's it can spy on you more efficiently? That's the NSA's primary mission, right? It clearly isn't securing the nation's communications like they said, because then we would have them actually doing that instead of every government agency handling security separately.
Retraining (Score:2)
Make the perfect criminal AI mind (Score:2)
profit center (Score:2)
A new profit center for NSA. Never let a good business opportunity pass you by.