By Alexandra Kelley
The Department of Homeland Security is launching a slew of new efforts to make use of artificial intelligence for federal operations, with the release of the agency’s inaugural AI roadmap on Monday, designed to add automated efficiency while protecting privacy rights.
The roadmap will guide the agency’s AI use through three lines of effort called for in the Biden administration’s AI executive order: responsibly leveraging AI to protect civil liberties; promoting national AI safety and security in the context of critical infrastructure; and leading in AI solution acquisition and development through public and private partnerships.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and agency CIO Eric Hysen called the roadmap the “most detailed AI plan put forward by a federal agency to date” in a letter prefacing the document.
