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US President Joseph Biden released a memorandum on Thursday, October 24, outlining plans for national intelligence and security agencies to adopt more artificial intelligence (AI) to bolster national defense.
The national security memo, directed at the National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Defense, and Department of Energy, implored the agencies to use AI and prioritize collecting information on other countries’ operations against the current U.S. AI deployment.
“We have to be faster in deploying AI and our national security enterprise than America’s rivals are in theirs,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in remarks at the National Defense University in Washington.
Sulivan added that the upcoming use of AI aims to ‘balance the need for fair competition and open markets, while protecting privacy, human rights and ensuring that AI systems do not undercut U.S. national security.’
“If we don’t deploy AI more quickly and comprehensively to strengthen our national security, we risk squandering our hard-earned lead,” Sullivan said. “We have to get this right because there is probably no other technology that will be more critical to our national security in the years ahead.”
The memo also tells agencies to ensure that the AI adoption ‘reflects democratic values and protects human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy,’ planning to coordinate with US allies to ensure that the tech is ‘developed and used in ways that adhere to international law while protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms.’
