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AI Commission Adopts Recommendations To Strengthen Roles Of DoD, Intelligence CTOs

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, October 8th, 2020

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AI Commission Adopts Recommendations To Strengthen Roles Of DoD, Intelligence CTOs

Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle and a commissioner on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Photo: NSCAI

A bipartisan national commission charged with making suggestions to advance the nation’s leadership and capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies for national security on Thursday approved dozens of new recommendations, including ones creating a chief technology officer (CTO) for the intelligence community and another to strengthen the role of the current Defense Department technology chief to help drive AI policies and the use of these technologies. The draft recommendations are contained in a draft interim report of the…

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