Pentagon publishes AI guidelines

guest · Nov 4, 2019

Pentagon publishes AI guidelines
November 4, 2019
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/11/04/pentagon-publishes-ai-guidelines/

The document comes from the Defense Innovation Board, a group of 16 heavy hitters chaired by former Alphabet executive chair Eric Schmidt and counting Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman among its members.

Called AI Principles: Recommendations on the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence by the Department of Defense, the missive is an attempt to lay out ground rules for the use of AI early on, giving the military a framework on which to build its AI systems.
The guidelines contain five main principles designed to keep AI-driven systems – for combat and other uses – in check: [...]

The guidelines also contain 12 recommendations to support these principles, including the creation of an AI steering committee, investment in research, and workforce AI training. They call for the creation of benchmarks to measure AI system reliability and a methodology to manage risk when rolling out AI.
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guest · Sep 4, 2020

How the DOD is developing its AI ethics guidance
September 2, 2020
https://www.fedscoop.com/jaic-alka-patel-ai-ethics/

It has been six months since the Department of Defense adopted ethical principles for artificial intelligence. Since then, the department’s Joint AI Center has faced the daunting challenge of taking that conceptual work and scaling it to develop actionable guidance for the rest of the military.

The goal is to give anyone who works in technology development — from contracting officers to software developers — a “shared vocabulary” for building ethics into any DOD work involving AI.
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The first step is to agree on a document that turns the principles into clear guidance. In the next six months, JAIC anticipates having a detailed guide in the hands of employees across the entire department.
The document will explain the DOD’s five ethics principles — that the use of artificial intelligence should be responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable and governable — and describe how they apply in the development of any AI technology, from backend business applications to lethal weapon systems.
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Alka Patel, the center’s head of AI ethics policy, told FedScoop her goal is to make “ethics a natural part of the way we all think.”
JAIC officials have predicted that the Pentagon will be a global leader in the testing and evaluation of AI due to the seriousness of its initiatives.

The JAIC will look to both humans and digital tools to build ethics into AI, according to officials.
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