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The FBI is using AI to mine threat tips, but isn’t sharing much detail

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Those documents also show the involvement of MITRE, a nonprofit organization that develops technologies and operates R&D centers for the government, and references mistakes that the system can make. A privacy impact assessment for the TIPS database, which was approved in 2020, does not mention any use of artificial intelligence.

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Law enforcement agencies need standardized AI field testing, presidential advisers say

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A potential checklist compiled by the subcommittee includes callouts to describe the AI tool and its intended use, document use limitation plans, conduct an AI impact assessment, identify the testing method and complete a questionnaire designed to “brainstorm and identify metrics” associated with the system.

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OMB Releases Final Guidance Memo on the Government’s Use of AI

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On March 28, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Memorandum M-24-10 , Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence (Memo), updating and implementing OMB’s November 2023 proposed memorandum of the same name.

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Some thoughts on the US' Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI

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The use of AI by the US Federal Government is an important focus of the AI Executive Order. It will be subject to a new governance regime detailed in the Draft Policy on the use of AI in the Federal Government (the ‘Draft AI in Government Policy’, see also its Factsheet ), which is open for comment until 5 December 2023.

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OMB draft AI guidance defines role of top agency AI official, adds to inventories

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The brief, which was announced as Vice President Kamala Harris visits the United Kingdom for an international summit focused on the technology, covers a range of AI applications that are or might be used by the government. The order also requires that agencies convene AI governance bodies and that they develop enterprise AI strategies.

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Amid scrutiny into the US Secret Service, a look at how the agency uses technology

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The Secret Service has also disclosed a social media screening contract through a privacy impact assessment. Protective Threat Management System According to an agency privacy impact assessment, the Secret Service uses a technology called the Protective Threat Management System.

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Privacy group pushes Biden administration on AI resources for agencies ahead of executive order

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They also suggested that the Office of Management and Budget update its guide to privacy impact assessments, which agencies are supposed to conduct before deploying new technologies, to include AI-related considerations. In the Oct.

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