Government
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The recent announcements on Palantir’s Maven Smart System and other strategic tools are just the start, CDAO Radha Plumb told Breaking Defense, with announcements on tactical and business systems coming by fall.
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Warns Of The Danger AI Poses To Democracy
With an election nearly upon us, it’s a good time to think about guarding against cyberattacks and deepfakes that could affect voting.
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TikTok’s Free Speech Argument Has Support Among Legal Scholars
Congress should have brushed up on their Con Law.
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Justice Department Investigating Tesla’s Self-Driving Claims
Puffery vs. ‘Elon Take The Wheel.’
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US Joins Austria, Bahrain, Canada, & Portugal To Co-Lead Global Push For Safer Military AI
Two US officials exclusively tell Breaking Defense the details of new international ‘working groups’ that are the next step in Washington’s campaign for ethical and safety standards for military AI and automation – without prohibiting their use entirely.
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Missouri AG Sues Media Matters For Aggravated MEAN TO TWITTER
He’s also a wee smidge confused on civil procedure.
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‘Useful’ Or ‘Dangerous’: Pentagon ‘Maturity Model’ For Generative AI Coming In June
With AI hype outrunning reality, DoD AI chief Craig Martell told lawmakers his office is ‘building what we’re calling a maturity model’ to assess what generative AI really can and cannot do.
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RFK Jr Replaces Aaron Rodgers With Lawyer And Legal Tech Entrepreneur In Veepstakes
Who will hitch their star to this doomed wagon?
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Healthcare Docket: A Near Doubling Of Hospital System Cyberattacks Triggers Bipartisan Bill
Increasing costs and healthcare cybersecurity worries have sparked calls for new laws. The bipartisan ‘Strengthening Cybersecurity in Health Care Act’ by four senators would require the HHS to perform routine evaluations of its systems and deliver biannual reports on practices and progress.
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Republicans Try To Block Very Basic Efforts To Prevent Racial Discrimination In Broadband Deployment
From the this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things dept.
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You Must Know These Tax Rules If You Plan To Write Off Your Purchase Of The Apple Vision Pro
While the Vision Pro’s business use has not been established, businesses seem to have several reasons to purchase it for their operations.
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Hard to see how the attorney-client privilege gets involved in citing fake cases.
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It seems that generative AI has struck again.
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White House AI Exec Order Raises Questions On Future Of DoD Innovation
‘What’s really going to matter is how these various departments and agencies actually start building the rules and interpreting the guidance that they received in the executive order,’ Klon Kitchen of Beacon Global Strategies told Breaking Defense.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
FDA Forms New Digital Health Advisory Committee To Cover Growing Role Of Tech
The FDA’s digital health advisory committee will discuss technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, virtual reality, and digital therapeutics as well as topics like decentralized clinical trials and patient-generated health data. Committee member nominations are due in December.
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Shutdown Can’t Stop Trump Criminal Cases Because PACER Is A Ripoff… Seriously
It’s good to have a slush fund!
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The IRS Will Use Artificial Intelligence To Help Pick Which Large Law Firms To Audit
The IRS has not elaborated, but the vague language could be intentional in order to put many others on notice.
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Treat AI As Your ‘Crazy Drunk Friend,’ Not Like ‘Peanut Butter’: CIA Tech Chief
Intelligence analysts need to be especially cautious about artificial intelligence ‘hallucinations’ or other false outputs, said the CIA’s Chief Technology Officer — but AI can also generate genuinely useful insights out of left field.