Pentagon’s outgoing AI chief warns Congress on safety, accuracy risks of the emerging tech

Published on March 22, 2024

Outgoing Pentagon AI chief Craig Martell makes a point at a March 22, 2024 hearing of the House Armed Services Committee. He's flanked by Chief Information Officer John Sherman (L) and Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert J. Skinner, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency.

The outgoing chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Defense warned lawmakers Friday that making generative AI systems safe for use in military operations will require significant work to standardize input data and validate outputs.

“We've been working really hard to figure out where and when generative AI is gonna be useful and where and when it's going to be dangerous,” he testified before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation. “The danger is…it takes a very high cognitive load to validate the output of this model.” 

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