Artificial Intelligence: Innovation at the Speed of Trust
DoD and its industry partners face complex questions and concerns about when, how, and why AI-enabled tools are used for the country’s defense. Learn how DIU and others are helping apply the DoD’s Ethical Principles for AI to both accelerate and ensure responsible adoption of AI for national security.
What you’ll find out
- Why joint focus differentiates DIU (03:45)
- How DoD is operationalizing ethical AI principles (04:47)
- The five questions to ask in pre-planning (08:40)
- Which artifacts and documents you need (14:45)
- How you test for responsible AI (17:25)
- Lessons learned (21:10)
- Challenges ahead (25:25)
Key quotes
- “One of the unique things about us is that we operate jointly so across all the Services and combatant commands…we really are focused on the full of government efforts in the security space.” — Bryce Goodman, DIU, Chief Strategist for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (03:40)
- “We’ve taken input not only from our own experiences running AI programs the last five years but also talking to industry and academia and tried to put together a practical, pragmatic framework that consists of a series of questions we ask at each stage.” — Bryce Goodman, DIU, Chief Strategist for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (06:17)
- “Ultimately, we think responsible AI is a process, not a checklist. It’s not a static thing.” — Bryce Goodman, DIU, Chief Strategist for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (07:51)
- “The experience with DIU has been excellent. They’ve been efficient, transparent, and very Silicon Valley friendly in the way they’ve operated which is appreciated.” — John Stockton, Quantifind, Co-founder (12:26)
- “Something everyone is getting right in the design phase is these kinds of constraints are built in rather than tacked on after the fact.” — John Stockton, Quantifind, Co-founder (14:03)
- “To finish you really need to have a full stack view. We call it responsible AI but it’s really responsible products as a whole. It’s not just on the model builder.” — John Stockton, Quantifind, Co-founder (18:20)
- “The diversity of the team is really going to help the whole team think differently and ask questions.” — Carole Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, Senior Research Scientist (23:08)
Who you’ll hear from
John Stockton, Quantifind, Co-founder
Carol Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, Senior Research Scientist
Bryce Goodman, DIU, Chief Strategist for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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