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The Defense Ministry is still finalizing a plan to enforce its moral principles for synthetic intelligence, Jane Pinelis, head of AI insurance at the Defense Ministry’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, said on Tuesday.
“We are the first army to adopt the moral principles of AI. Since then, several other countries have done so, and where we are now with [the workplace of the head of virtual and synthetic intelligence], is that we are looking to move into implementation,” Pinelis at a roundtable at the Atlantic Council on May 17.
“So we have the five moral principles at this point. We got orders from the undersecretary to advance six other principles. But now we move on to. . . implementation”.
The Ministry of Defence published guidance for guilty use of AI in May 2021 after pronouncing a set of moral principles the previous year.
Pinelis said the implementation plan, which is awaiting the undersecretary of defense’s signature, would be a “formal avenue” covering “various Defense Department organizations with very explicit moves to put those principles into practice. “
Many of those tasks, he continued, overlap with testing and evaluation, but there are many elements that require everyone within the DOD to take some responsibility.
“Responsible AI is, in a way, the job of everyone in the department,” Pinelis said. “So, there are elements that have to do with foreign allies. There are elements that have to do with the acquisition of those systems and the progression of those systems, and again, the progression of all those arguments and evidence that pass to an AI. “
Michael Horowitz, policy director for emerging functions at the Defense Department, said faster implementation of synthetic intelligence and autonomous generation responds to calls for budget and centralized leadership, two problems the Pentagon is facing with the creation of its leading virtual and synthetic intelligence workplace.
“If knowledge is the fuel that makes AI necessarily work (what is a set of rules without the knowledge you would use to exercise it in some way?), then combine it under the structure [of the head of virtual and synthetic technology]. intelligence], I think it will also be reflected in what a new strategy is likely to look like,” Horowitz said at an opening panel at the event. “What is needed now is to turn one’s mind into truth and do it faster. “
Horowitz, who held the new position for about a month, said he is “quite optimistic” about the Pentagon’s direction and focuses on AI and autonomy through the creation of the Office of Emerging Capabilities Policy, the CAO and the Innovation Steering Group. the Under Secretary of State for Defense for Research and Engineering.
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