Startup Working on Contentious Pentagon AI Project Was Hacked

guest · Jun 13, 2018

Startup Working on Contentious Pentagon AI Project Was Hacked
June 12, 2018
https://www.wired.com/story/startup-working-on-contentious-pentagon-ai-project-was-hacked/

Former and current employees say the group was working on a controversial Pentagon project using machine-learning algorithms to interpret drone-surveillance imagery—and that Clarifai’s secrets were less safe than they should have been.

Clarifai was working on a piece of Project Maven, former and current employees say, a Pentagon effort to infuse the US military with AI. Project Maven has triggered dissent inside Google, which took on a similar drone-analysis contract.

Clarifai declined to comment on whether it had worked on Maven. A spokesperson said the security incident involved an “untargeted bot” that had infected a research server and did not access any data or code. The spokesperson said customers were notified of the incident, but declined to say when or whether that included the Pentagon.
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