US Intelligence Agencies Leverage AI to Accelerate JFK File Review and Enhance Operations

US intelligence taps AI for chatbots, JFK file review

AI has been a "game changer" for the intelligence community, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who noted two key applications of the technology for classified government work at the Amazon Web Services DC Summit on Tuesday. First, remember that big dump of previously classified files related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination that the Trump administration declassified in March? "We have released 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, which is to have humans go through and look at every single one of these pages," Gabbard said on Tuesday. The documents didn't cast any new doubt on the official government story that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin, but had several interesting revelations about the extent of the CIA's activities in the 1960s - including trying to set up visiting foreign dignitaries with female companionship, according to this summary by the Center for Politics. The truth is out there! More prosaically, America's 18 intelligence agencies commissioned a chatbot that has now been deployed across all of them, including the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency. "Making it possible for us to use AI applications in the top-secret clouds has been a game changer," Gabbard said on stage during the keynote address. The "top-secret clouds" that Gabbard referenced are designed to process and store sensitive information up to the "Secret" classification level. AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud each have their own offerings that meet the security standards of US government agencies, including the intelligence community. During Tuesday's keynote, AWS VP of Worldwide Public Sector Dave Levy said the cloud giant will open its second cloud region accredited to support workloads up to the US Secret classification level this year. AWS launched its first secret region in 2017, making it the first cloud provider to support government workloads across all of the US data classifications -- Unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret. It announced plans for the second top-secret region, AWS Top Secret-West, in 2021, and four years later, it has earned the necessary security accreditations to support national security and defense customers in this new region. Gabbard said she welcomed this type of private-sector innovation and wants to make it easier for the intelligence community to work with technology vendors. "I want to get us away from having the government trying to build tech solutions for itself, because it's really not what the government is best at doing," she said. Instead, Gabbard said, she wants to build partnerships with tech giants like AWS and focus "on buying and purchasing solutions wherever we can, so that our workforce can focus on the things that we are very good at, and have exclusive responsibilities to fulfill." ®

Gabbard says AI is speeding up intel work, including the release of the JFK assassination files

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Artificial intelligence is speeding up the work of America's intelligence services, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday. Speaking to a technology conference, Gabbard said AI programs, when used responsibly, can save money and free up intelligence officers to focus on gathering and analyzing information. The sometimes slow pace of intelligence work frustrated her as a member of Congress, Gabbard said, and continues to be a challenge. AI can run human resource programs, for instance, or scan sensitive documents ahead of potential declassification, Gabbard said. Her office has released tens of thousands of pages of material related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, on the orders of President Donald Trump. Experts had predicted the process could take many months or even years, but AI accelerated the work by scanning the documents to see if they contained any material that should remain classified, Gabbard said during her remarks at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington. "We have been able to do that through the use of AI tools far more quickly than what was done previously -- which was to have humans go through and look at every single one of these pages," Gabbard said. The intelligence community already relies on many private-sector technologies, and Gabbard said she wants to expand that relationship instead of using federal resources to create expensive alternatives. "How do we look at the available tools that exist -- largely in the private sector -- to make it so that our intelligence professionals, both collectors and analysts, are able to focus their time and energy on the things that only they can do," she said. Gabbard, who coordinates the work of 18 intelligence agencies, has vowed to shake up America's spy services. Since assuming her role this year, she has created a new task force to consider changes to agency operations as well as greater declassification. She also has fired two veteran intelligence officers because of perceived opposition to Trump, eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion programs and relocated the staff who prepare the President's Daily Brief to give her more direct control.

Gabbard says AI is speeding up intel work, including the release of the JFK assassination files

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Artificial intelligence is speeding up the work of America's intelligence services, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday. Speaking to a technology conference, Gabbard said AI programs, when used responsibly, can save money and free up intelligence officers to focus on gathering and analyzing information. The sometimes slow pace of intelligence work frustrated her as a member of Congress, Gabbard said, and continues to be a challenge. AI can run human resource programs, for instance, or scan sensitive documents ahead of potential declassification, Gabbard said. Her office has released tens of thousands of pages of material related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, on the orders of President Donald Trump. Experts had predicted the process could take many months or even years, but AI accelerated the work by scanning the documents to see if they contained any material that should remain classified, Gabbard said during her remarks at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington. "We have been able to do that through the use of AI tools far more quickly than what was done previously -- which was to have humans go through and look at every single one of these pages," Gabbard said. The intelligence community already relies on many private-sector technologies, and Gabbard said she wants to expand that relationship instead of using federal resources to create expensive alternatives. "How do we look at the available tools that exist -- largely in the private sector -- to make it so that our intelligence professionals, both collectors and analysts, are able to focus their time and energy on the things that only they can do," she said. Gabbard, who coordinates the work of 18 intelligence agencies, has vowed to shake up America's spy services. Since assuming her role this year, she has created a new task force to consider changes to agency operations as well as greater declassification. She also has fired two veteran intelligence officers because of perceived opposition to Trump, eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion programs and relocated the staff who prepare the President's Daily Brief to give her more direct control.

Gabbard: AI used to decide continued JFK files' classification

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the Trump administration used artificial intelligence to help determine which documents related to the assassination of former President Kennedy should remain classified. Gabbard, speaking at an Amazon Web Services conference Tuesday, touted how the agency fed tens of thousands of pages of materials into AI systems ahead of their declassification to speed up the otherwise lengthy process. "We have been able to do that through the use of AI tools far more quickly than what was done previously -- which was to have humans go through and look at every single one of these pages," Gabbard said, according to the Associated Press. The process could have taken several months or years without the technology, AP reported. Gabbard called for using private-sector technologies to speed up these types of processes, save money and allow intelligence officers to spend more time gathering and analyzing information. "How do we look at the available tools that exist -- largely in the private sector -- to make it so that our intelligence professionals, both collectors and analysts, are able to focus their time and energy on the things that only they can do," she said, the AP reported. The US intelligence community already engages in various public-private partnerships and Gabbard said she hopes to expand this, according to the AP. The release of the remaining JFK assassination files built upon a promise President Trump made on the campaign trail and followed an executive order he signed in January at the start of his second term. Multiple analyses determined many of the documents had already been released to the public in some form but were previously redacted. Gabbard's push for AI comes amid broader efforts from the Trump administration to increase the efficiency of the federal government's work. Trump signed an executive order earlier this year calling for the modernization of federal technology and software.

Tulsi Gabbard's Team Fed The JFK Assassination Files Into AI To Figure Out What To Declassify

Trump's intelligence chief said AI reviewing the documents was significantly faster than humans looking "at every single one of these pages." Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has admitted to using an artificial intelligence program to help determine which of the documents to declassify about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Addressing a technology conference Tuesday, Gabbard championed the use of AI in helping America's intelligence services save time and money. Coming into the role earlier this year, she said, she was confronted with "a deluge of day-to-day tasks and churn" that can "quickly suck up all of the time in the day." She argued deploying AI to scour top-secret files has been "a game changer." In particular, she cited how AI was used by her department to decide which documents should be made public, and used the example of the material related to the assassinations of President Kennedy and his brother New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents related to both assassinations, as well as the killing of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., making good on a campaign trail promise. Past attempts to release the records were stymied by internal reviews and redactions. "We have released thousands, tens of thousands of documents related to the assassinations of JFK and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy," Gabbard told the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington, per a transcript on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's website. "And we have been able to do that through the use of AI tools far more quickly than what was done previously, which is to have humans go through and look at every single one of these pages." She added the AI tools were looking for issues "that might be sensitive for living family members to be made aware of." Gabbard continued that the intelligence service has been able to aggregate data more quickly by using AI. She pointed to how 10,000 hours of media now takes one person just an hour to process, rather than eight people spending 48 hours combing through the same information. Gabbard, a former Democratic member of Congress who switched parties last year, coordinates the work of 18 intelligence agencies. In March, Trump signaled 80,000 pages related to President Kennedy's death would be released The vast majority of the files posted on the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration's website were previously publicly available. Some of the unredacted documents released included sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers. President Kennedy's fatal shooting in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, has spawned countless conspiracy theories. Police arrested 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald, who had positioned himself on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald during a jail transfer. A year after the assassination, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone and that there was no evidence of a conspiracy. But that did little to curb the alternative theories floated ever since.