Risk considerations for the department of defense's fielding of large language models

Misty Blowers; Santos Salinas; Seth Bailey

doi:10.1117/12.3014424

6 June 2024 Risk considerations for the department of defense's fielding of large language models

Misty Blowers, Santos Salinas, Seth Bailey

Proceedings Volume 13058, Disruptive Technologies in Information Sciences VIII; 130580H (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3014424
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2024, National Harbor, Maryland, United States

Abstract

In a 10 August 2023 memo to Senior Department of Defense (DoD) Leaders, the Deputy Secretary of Defense outlined the roles and responsibilities of the DoD's newly established Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Generative Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models Task Force, Task Force Lima. The AI and LLM Task Force is charged with focusing the DoD's exploration and responsible fielding of generative AI and LLM capabilities. While AI and LLM have revolutionized natural language processing in commercial applications, significant concerns must be addressed before the technology is fully deployed within the DoD. This study will explore the current biases in training data, ethical violations, security breaches, potential misuse, and challenges with AI and LLM interpretability. Industry, academic and government partnerships need to ensure a responsible and equitable deployment of LLMs that harnesses the full potential of the capabilities in a manner that is responsible, secure, and well understood by the end user community.

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Misty Blowers, Santos Salinas, and Seth Bailey "Risk considerations for the department of defense's fielding of large language models", Proc. SPIE 13058, Disruptive Technologies in Information Sciences VIII, 130580H (6 June 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3014424

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