Today, CDT’s Director of AI Governance Lab, Miranda Bogen, is speaking before the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) Public Forum on the Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Counterterrorism and Related National Security Programs.
Bogen's remarks highlight that despite rapid advancements in artificial intelligence technologies in recent years, many challenges and questions have been present for some time. She acknowledges the potential new capabilities AI offers to enhance national security but urges caution due to the well-known but unresolved risks these systems pose to people's rights and safety.
From her written statement: “[Bogen’s remarks address] some themes responsive to questions PCLOB posed in their invitation to provide insight in the context of this panel: how AI will impact privacy and civil liberties, whether human operators will be able to understand and provide sufficient oversight to AI-powered systems, and how such oversight could be most effective. We also offer reflections on the role PCLOB or analogous independent agencies could play in providing oversight to the uses and implementation of AI so that national security and intelligence agencies are not left to ‘grade their own homework.’”
Read the full written statement.
