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Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Web developer and technologist Chris Garaffa tells Sputnik that although machine intelligence firm Primer has experienced staff with close government ties, its recent US military contract geared toward combating disinformation provokes questions about the limits of artificial intelligence and the possible misuse of AI by US government officials.<\/p>\n

“For all the US military\u2019s technical advantages over adversaries, it still struggles to counter disinformation. A new software tool to be developed for the US Air Force and Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, may help change that,” said a new Defense One article published on October 2, just a day following the announcement of Primer’s multi-million-dollar contract.<\/p>\n

Garaffa told Radio Sputnik\u2019s Political Misfits on Thursday that this deal made in an effort to combat fake news is part of a \u201cvery bad trend to make AI [determine] what is true and what is not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Segment begins around the 13:42 timestamp In fact, designing AI to do \u201canything [other] than summarizing information that should then be reviewed by a human\u201d is problematic, Garaffa told hosts Bob Schlehuber and Michelle Witte.<\/p>\n

Garaffa highlighted that Primer is a relatively small machine intelligence company, yet it has major contracts with retail corporation Walmart, the US Air Force and In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).<\/p>\n

Amy Heineike and Sean Gourley, former employees of private software and services company Quid, are involved in Primer, as is Brian Raymond, a former CIA officer and ex-director for Iraq for the National Security Council (NSC).<\/p>\n

Speaking of Raymond, Garaffa stated that \u201cthis is somebody who has very, very close ties to the government and to the intelligence community, having been on the NSC.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t trust AI to do this kind of real-world analysis, in real-time, in this state that it\u2019s in,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Garaffa expressed they are skeptical of the Primer AI\u2019s ability to determine, for example, whether the information in a particular social media post is \u201cactually telling the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what the Air Force wants it for. [The service] wants it for situational awareness on the ground,\u201d they noted, noting that this tech could later be adopted by an array of federal government agencies, such as the US Department of Homeland Security and its subagency US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey could use it to monitor protests, which they, you know, do,\u201d Garaffa highlighted. There\u2019s also the general issue of trust and how something comes to be regarded as fact versus fiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter any kind of situation, there\u2019s a lot of misinformation that comes out, because people are trying to figure out what happened,\u201d Garaffa noted. \u201cSome of it is legitimately misdirecting people, but some of it is \u2026 people reporting what they\u2019ve seen \u2026 and it turns out to be wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no information about how Primer addresses any of these questions, or bias that is inherent in the development of AI,\u201d they emphasized.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember, these algorithms are developed by people. People have bias. People have blind spots.\u201d<\/p>\n

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