 "Which secret JFK Files can US make public? Trump’s intelligence chief asked AI to answer")
Tulsi Gabbard might be the US intelligence chief, but it is artificial intelligence (AI) applications that appear to be calling shots.
Gabbard on Tuesday said that she relied on AI to tell her which documents in the ‘JFK files’ should remain classified and which should be made public.
In March, the Donald Trump administration released over 2,200 files running into more than 63,000 pages related to the assassination of former President John F Kennedy, who was shot dead on November 22, 1963, during a roadshow in Dallas, Texas.
Speaking at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) conference, Gabbard said that she fed all the documents related to Kennedy’s assassination, referred to as JFK files, to assess which documents to make public.
“A couple of examples of the application of AI and machine learning that we’ve already used in this Director’s Initiative Group has been around declassification. We have released thousands, tens of thousands of documents related to the assassinations of JFK and Senator Robert F Kennedy, and we have been able to do that through the use of AI tools far more quickly than what was done previously,” said Gabbard.
Gabbard’s admission has come at a time when risks related to artificial intelligence (AI) and vulnerabilities related to technology are under increased scanner.
Companies owning chatbots or other AI applications, such as OpenAI or DeepSeek, can retain data and files that users feed. If Gabbard has fed data into a private chatbot, all those government secrets are now set to be stored in the chatbot’s server or backend.
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More ShortsSuch irresponsible usage of technology would not be the first in the Trump administration. Earlier this year, it emerged that top officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and then-National Security Advisor (NSA) Mike Waltz, were discussing top-secret operational plans on messaging application Signal. Even though Trump defended the usage and everyone denied any wrongdoing, Trump later sacked Waltz as NSA.
Gabbard further said that the Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG), her pet project, is using AI to process open-source information.
Gabbard said, “Ten thousand hours of media content, for example, that normally would take eight people 48 hours to comb through, now takes one person one hour through the use of some of the AI tools that we have here. So, those are a few of many examples that this Director’s Initiative Group is focused on. Again, not only for ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence], but really for us to be able to provide these efficiencies and these tools across the entire enterprise.”
Gabbard further said that there is now a dedicated chatbot for the US intelligence community that comprises 18 agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), etc.
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