DOJ official advises industry on how to build compliance programs for AI-inspired data EO

Companies should establish risk-based compliance programs to get better acquainted with their data in preparation for the Department of Justice implementing an executive order aimed at blocking China and other foreign adversaries from accessing personal information for use in offensive AI-enabled actions, a DOJ official advised.

“Our office has developed what we call the four knows -- K N O W S -- in how to go about developing this risk profile,” said Eric Johnson, principal deputy chief of DOJ’s...