Tonya Riley reports:
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the National Security Agency Thursday, alleging it failed to disclose documents about its deployment of artificial intelligence under federal public records law.
Transparency about the agency’s ramped-up use of AI is critical to allowing the public to understand how their rights are being affected, and the agency hasn’t complied with the federal Freedom of Information Act, according to the ACLU’s lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit, shared first with Bloomberg Law, also names as defendants the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Defense Department.
The group is asking the court to force the agencies to release all “reports, assessments, studies, audits, analyses, or presentations concerning the risks or impacts posed by the NSA’s use or proposed use of AI or machine learning for privacy, civil liberties, or civil rights that were created on or after January 1, 2022.”
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