Gabbard Says AI is Speeding Up Intel Work, Including the Release of the JFK Assassination Files (apnews.com) 39
AI is speeding up the work of America's intelligence services, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday. From a report: Speaking to a technology conference, Gabbard said AI programs, when used responsibly, can save money and free up intelligence officers to focus on gathering and analyzing information. The sometimes slow pace of intelligence work frustrated her as a member of Congress, Gabbard said, and continues to be a challenge. AI can run human resource programs, for instance, or scan sensitive documents ahead of potential declassification, Gabbard said. Her office has released tens of thousands of pages of material related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, on the orders of President Donald Trump.
Experts had predicted the process could take many months or even years, but AI accelerated the work by scanning the documents to see if they contained any material that should remain classified, Gabbard said during her remarks at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington. "We have been able to do that through the use of AI tools far more quickly than what was done previously -- which was to have humans go through and look at every single one of these pages," Gabbard said.
Experts had predicted the process could take many months or even years, but AI accelerated the work by scanning the documents to see if they contained any material that should remain classified, Gabbard said during her remarks at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington. "We have been able to do that through the use of AI tools far more quickly than what was done previously -- which was to have humans go through and look at every single one of these pages," Gabbard said.
Red herring: show me Epstein (Score:5, Insightful)
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We're never getting the Epstein files.
hahaha keep trying to pretend he's not a pedo (Score:2, Flamebait)
I think I've figured out why the people who claim to be against pedophiles are defending Donald Trump.
It's because he let us know he'd like to be fucking his daughter, and his supporters are all products of incest.
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We're never getting the Epstein files.
We will when everyone listed in them is dead. Too many power brokers involved in those files for them to come out within their lifetimes. Most of us will likely be dead before they're released as well. I would assume family members won't want names leaking until a generation or two down the line, when it'll be acceptable to say, "Prior generations had different standards," and they can paint all of society as being complicit in their shittery.
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I don't believe that we will, no. They are destroying them instead of archiving them. The people who would prevent that would release them now if they had them.
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Ask all AIs about them and see.
"Pics or it didn't happen"?
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They've had 60+ years, AI ain't going to help. One might assume that the people they are protecting are still alive in their 90s.
THIS! All these documents have surely been manually reviewed multiple times already. "AI let us check them faster" just means they did NOT actually check them. I can check them faster and cheaper with grep, but that doesn't ensure 100% coverage and neither does use of a LLM.
Show that this speeds up current casework declassification in general and that would be a major point (and
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Nobody gives a flying purple nurple about JFK.
RFK Jr on the other hand... Any files on him? Any current worm - I mean, brain - scans?
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All you need to know about RFK's fitness for office is out in public for everyone to see.
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If it only just was his fitness that was the matter.
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There's no dichotomy here - both are imperative.
The Gaza activists are especially interested in the (illegally) withheld JFK documents.
Both are being withheld to protect the same interests.
On Prem AI? (Score:1)
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Everything classified is air gapped. DoD absolutely has their own internal AI.
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> Everything classified is air gapped.
Except for the classified info that's texted?
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Oh?
https://aws.amazon.com/federal... [amazon.com]
CIA gave Amazon a $600M contract a few years back.
Re: On Prem AI? (Score:2)
Cheaper to pay by the month and requires no thought. Which is how you become dependent on third parties. Even core management functions are often contacted out now.
OMG (Score:5, Insightful)
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Wait, the US intelligence community is putting a bunch of their files through an unproven technology that's renowned for making mistakes, and they're just going to trust the output? Time to get the popcorn!
TL;DR: You could have just said PDB [wikipedia.org]. :-)
(Which is, apparently, also too long and, currently, requires "reading". *sigh*)
Great job redacting SSNs (Score:4, Interesting)
You mean the JFK documents that were released containing hundreds of social security numbers of federal employees? Not exactly a glowing recommendation.
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I thought that the big advantage we had in the Cuba missile crisis was the SSBNs, not the SSNs
whatever happened to transparent government? (Score:2, Insightful)
A government that keeps secrets is most likely a corrupt and dishonest government.
The "national security" excuse is just that, an excuse. And its an excuse that is metastacizing until nearly everything becomes "classified" somehow.
In my view, if a government is not open and transparent it should be abolished and replaced. simple as that.
Re:whatever happened to transparent government? (Score:4, Insightful)
No, there are all kinds of information the government has that are legitimately not available. Sensitive data on private citizens, for example, which is why people are worried about unvetted DOGE employees getting unfettered access to federal systems. Information that would put witnesses in ongoing criminal investigations at risk. Military operations in progress and intelligence assets in use.
The problem is ever since there has been a legal means to keep that information secret, it's also been used to cover up government mistake and misconduct. It's perfectly reasonable for a government to keep things from its citizens *if there is a specific and articulable justification* that can withstand critical examination.
And sometimes those justifications are overridden by public interest concerns -- specifically when officials really want to bury something like the Pentagon Papers because they are embarrassing to the government. "Embarrassing to the government" should be an argument against secrecy, because of the public interest in knowing the government is doing embarrassing things. In the end, the embarrassment caused by the Pentagon Papers was *good* for the country.
Psst... here's a secret (Score:2)
They've been using all sorts of fun tools for a lot longer than you would expect. No futher information.
so embaressing (Score:2)
Watching these clowns jiggle keys in the publics face and the public just all-the-way goes for it.
We truly are a nation of dipshits.
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Posse Comitatus Ac... ooh shiny. What were we talking about?
from JFK to The Mystery of Al Capone's vault (Score:2)
It's all Boomer shit, nobody cares!
Release Gitmo and ICE detection files.
And political leaders need to actually talk about the ongoing and recent open conflicts and shadow wars that the US has been involved in. NEITHER side wants to talk about any of the nasty shit we've been up to in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Operation Juniper Shield (Cameroon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria), Somalia, Afghanistan (heavy CIA presence), Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Northwest Pakistan), Iran
Bush already cleaned house (Score:1)
1st Information Operations Command in da house (Score:2)
What has Intel to do... (Score:2)
Maybe AI can replace Gabbard (Score:2)