How the CIA is Working to Ethically Deploy Artificial Intelligence

As the Central Intelligence Agency harnesses machine learning and artificial intelligence to better meet its mission, insiders are aggressively addressing issues around bias and ethics intrinsic to the emerging tech. "We at the agency have over 100 AI initiatives that we are working on and that's going to continue to be the case," Benjamin Huebner, the CIA's privacy and civil liberties officer said Friday at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution in Washington. "That's a big complicated issue that we are very much thinking about all the time." Huebner said collaborating with the intelligence agency's data scientists is one of his favorite parts of his job. His privacy team works directly with their tech-facing colleagues on projects around statistics, coding, and graphical representations.