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