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Deputy Defense Secretary Outlines Responsible AI Tenets in New Memo
https://www.nextgov.com ^ | JUNE 4, 2021 | By Mila Jasper

Posted on 06/07/2021 8:08:38 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will lead implementation of responsible AI across the Defense Department, according to a new directive.

In a departmentwide memo signed last week, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks enumerated foundational tenets for responsible AI, reaffirmed the ethical AI principles the department adopted last year, and mandated the JAIC director start work on four activities for developing a responsible AI ecosystem.

“As the DoD embraces artificial intelligence (AI), it is imperative that we adopt responsible behavior, processes, and outcomes in a manner that reflects the Department's commitment to its ethical principles, including the protection of privacy and civil liberties,” Hicks said in the memo, which was announced June 1. “A trusted ecosystem not only enhances our military capabilities, but also builds confidence with end-users, warfighters, and the American public.”

Hicks assigned the JAIC director to coordinate responsible AI through a working council, which must in turn hammer out a strategy and implementation pathway, create a talent management framework, and report on how responsible AI can be integrated into acquisitions. A list of designated representatives from the military departments, Joint Staff and various other DOD offices who will serve on the working council is due 14 days after the memo was signed on May 26.

On top of the five ethical AI principles—responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable, governable—Hicks added six tenets to guide implementation of responsible AI, or RAI. The guidance requires disciplined governance, warfighter trust, a systems engineering and risk management approach to AI acquisitions throughout the product lifecycle, incorporation of RAI principles in requirements, a “robust national and global RAI ecosystem,” and a workforce educated on RAI.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; computing; dod; jaic; rai; thend


1 posted on 06/07/2021 8:08:38 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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Who is Biden putting in charge of Skynet?


2 posted on 06/07/2021 8:10:08 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I wish I was 14 again so I could ruin my life in a completely different way. I've got ideas.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

As long as the AI isn’t racist, anything goes.


3 posted on 06/07/2021 8:11:07 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: RomanSoldier19

This worked out so well with Skynet and WOPAR.
Let’s try it again!!!

They aren’t going to rest until they screw it up
for everyone!


4 posted on 06/07/2021 8:13:07 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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5 posted on 06/07/2021 8:19:26 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The same Defense Department that can’t prevent hacking? Yeah..../s


6 posted on 06/07/2021 8:28:57 PM PDT by cranked
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7 posted on 06/07/2021 8:35:12 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: RomanSoldier19

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8 posted on 06/07/2021 8:35:43 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
In a departmentwide memo signed last week, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks enumerated foundational tenets for responsible AI, reaffirmed the ethical AI principles the department adopted last year.

"I'm sorry, Kathleen. I'm afraid I can't let you do that."

Regards,

9 posted on 06/08/2021 12:25:41 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Just adopt google’s old principle of do no evil?
Artificial intelligence ecosystem? Strangulation by obfuscation.


10 posted on 06/08/2021 3:36:34 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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11 posted on 06/08/2021 6:10:07 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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