GAO faults DHS inventory of AI ‘use cases’

The Government Accountability Office is recommending steps for the Department of Homeland Security to verify its use of artificial intelligence technologies as listed in its publicly available “use case” inventory.

“DHS created a public inventory of ‘AI use cases’ -- how it uses AI. But DHS doesn't verify whether each case is correctly characterized as AI,” GAO says in a Feb. 7 report. The congressional watchdog group examined two AI uses by DHS listed as for cybersecurity and found...