The CIA is set to unveil a ChatGPT-style tool that will make it easier for its analysts to gain better access to mounds of open-source intelligence.
The CIA's Open-Source Enterprise division will soon debut its artificial intelligence tool, which mirrors one created by OpenAI Inc., Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
The AI tool will allow users to see the original source of the information that they're viewing, said Randy Nixon, director of the Open-Source Enterprise division, adding that a chat feature is a logical part of quickly getting intelligence distributed.
"We've gone from newspapers and radio to newspapers and television, to newspapers and cable television, to basic internet, to big data, and it just keeps going," Nixon told Bloomberg. "We have to find the needles in the needle field."
The CIA's plan is part of a broader government campaign to use AI and compete with China, which is seeking to become the global leader in the field by 2030, Bloomberg reported. U.S. intelligence agencies also are trying to rebut criticism they are too slow to exploit AI as they struggle to process the vast amounts of data that's now publicly available.
"Then you can take it to the next level and start chatting and asking questions of the machines to give you answers, also sourced," said Nixon, whose division oversees intelligence drawn from publicly and commercially available sources. "Our collection can just continue to grow and grow with no limitations other than how much things cost."
The goal of using open-source information has run into privacy considerations. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has raised concerns about agencies using largely unregulated commercial marketplaces to purchase stockpiles of data about people, including location information gathered from cellphones, Bloomberg reported.
The intelligence community classifies such information as open-source, even if it is available only for purchase by governments.
"The scale of how much we collect and what we collect on has grown astronomically over the last 80-plus years, so much so that this could be daunting and at times unusable for our consumers," Nixon said, adding the AI tool would let analysts move to a process "where the machines are pushing you the right information, one where the machine can auto-summarize, group things together."
The AI tool will be available across the entire U.S. intelligence community, which includes the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI, and agencies run by branches of the military. It won't be available to policy makers or the public, Bloomberg reported. Nixon said the agency closely follows U.S. privacy laws.
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