WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday denied using the AI-powered language model ChatGPT in any of its systems. In a statement to FedScoop, the agency said the chatbot is not being deployed by the department, including in mission-critical air traffic control systems, Rebecca Heilweil reports for FedScoop.com. Continue reading original article.
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28 July 2023 - Heilweil notes that the FAA says it does not use ChatGPT in any systems. "The clarification comes after the U.S. Department of Transportation previously included ChatGPT in a public list of AI use cases," Heilweil writes.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) notes in a release that while generative artificial intelligence (AI) has a wide range of applications, agencies should be cautious about putting potentially sensitive information into AI system's ever-growing knowledge base.
"Information about how and when some generative AI systems retain and use information entered into them is sparse or unavailable to many users, which poses risks for using these tools," the GAO writes. "For example, if a user enters sensitive information into a prompt, it could be stored and misused or aggregated with other information in the future. Furthermore, when systems are publically and internationally accessible, they could provide benefits to an adversary. For example, generative AI could help rewrite code making it harder to attribute cyberattacks. It may also generate code for more effective cyberattacks even by attackers with limited computer programming skills."
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