US unveils national security plan to step up use of AI [Video]

The United States on Thursday ordered the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to step up use of artificial intelligence to advance national security, in the first such strategy to counter threats from rivals such as China.

The new National Security Memorandum, which comes a year after President Joe Biden issued an executive order on regulating AI, seeks to thread the needle between using the technology to counter its military applications by adversaries and building safeguards to uphold civil rights, officials said.

“This is our nation’s first ever strategy for harnessing the power and managing the risks of AI to advance our national security,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a speech at the National Defense University in Washington.

“We have to be faster in deploying AI and our national security enterprise than America’s rivals are in theirs. They are in a persistent quest to leapfrog our military and intelligence capabilities.”

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