{"id":28227,"date":"2020-06-18T23:06:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2020\/06\/18\/artificial-intelligence-systems-need-checks-and-balances-throughout-development\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:28:28","slug":"artificial-intelligence-systems-need-checks-and-balances-throughout-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2020\/06\/18\/artificial-intelligence-systems-need-checks-and-balances-throughout-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence systems need \u2018checks and balances\u2019 throughout development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon\u2019s primary artificial intelligence hub is already studying how to aim a laser at the correct spot on an enemy vehicle, pinpointing which area to target to inflict the most damage, and identifying the most important messages headed to commanders, officials said June 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as part of that work, the Department of Defense needs to carefully implement checks and balances into the development process, experts urged June 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFundamentally I would say there\u2019s a requirement \u2026 that there\u2019s going to be a mixture of measures taken to ensure the governability of the system from the first stage of the design of the system all the way up through the operations of the system in a combat scenario,\u201d said Greg Allen, the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center\u2019s chief of strategy and communications at the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, at the Defense One Tech Summit June 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The JAIC is working on several lethality projects through its new<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2020\/01\/22\/pentagon-will-start-figuring-out-ai-for-lethality-in-2021\/\" target=_blank> joint warfighting initiative<\/a>, boosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2020\/05\/18\/booz-allen-hamilton-wins-massive-pentagon-artificial-intelligence-contract\/\" target=_blank>a new contract award<\/a> to Booz Allen potentially worth $800 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith this new contract vehicle, we have the potential to do even more this next year than we did in the past,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the Army\u2019s Artificial Intelligence Task Force is working on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2020\/06\/10\/the-army-ai-task-force-takes-on-two-key-projects\/\">advanced threat recognition project<\/a>. DARPA is exploring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/c2-comms\/2020\/06\/16\/a-weapon-system-raises-its-hand-if-available-under-darpa-program\/\">complementing AI systems<\/a> that would identify available combat support assets and quickly plan their route to the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout all of the development work, experts from the military and from academia stressed that human involvement and experimentation was critical to ensuring that artificial intelligence assets are trustworthy. The department has released a document of five artificial intelligence ethical principles, but the challenge remains implementing those principles into projects across a department with disparate services working on separate artificial intelligence projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe want safe, reliable and robust systems deployed to our warfighters,\u201d said Heather Roff, senior research analyst at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. \u201cWe want to be able to trust those systems. We want to have some sort of measure of predictability even if those systems act unpredictably.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brig. Gen. 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