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Gabbard Says AI is Speeding Up Intel Work, Including the Release of the JFK Assassination Files (apnews.com)

(Wednesday June 11, 2025 @03:00AM (msmash) from the how-about-that dept.)


AI is speeding up the work of America's intelligence services, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday. From a report:

> Speaking to a technology conference, Gabbard said AI programs, when used responsibly, can save money and [1]free up intelligence officers to focus on gathering and analyzing information . The sometimes slow pace of intelligence work frustrated her as a member of Congress, Gabbard said, and continues to be a challenge. AI can run human resource programs, for instance, or scan sensitive documents ahead of potential declassification, Gabbard said. Her office has released tens of thousands of pages of material related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, on the orders of President Donald Trump.

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> Experts had predicted the process could take many months or even years, but AI accelerated the work by scanning the documents to see if they contained any material that should remain classified, Gabbard said during her remarks at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington. "We have been able to do that through the use of AI tools far more quickly than what was done previously -- which was to have humans go through and look at every single one of these pages," Gabbard said.



[1] https://apnews.com/article/gabbard-trump-ai-amazon-intelligence-beca4c4e25581e52de5343244e995e78



Red herring: show me Epstein (Score:5, Insightful)

by Big Hairy Gorilla ( 9839972 )

Nobody gives a flying purple nurple about JFK.

Re: (Score:3)

by ArchieBunker ( 132337 )

We're never getting the Epstein files.

Re: (Score:1, Troll)

by drinkypoo ( 153816 )

> We're never getting the Epstein files.

We should clearly assume they say the worst about Cheeto Benito since he's the one who prevented us from getting them.

hahaha keep trying to pretend he's not a pedo (Score:2, Flamebait)

by drinkypoo ( 153816 )

I think I've figured out why the people who claim to be against pedophiles are defending Donald Trump.

It's because he let us know he'd like to be fucking his daughter, and his supporters are all products of incest.

Re: (Score:2)

by nightflameauto ( 6607976 )

> We're never getting the Epstein files.

We will when everyone listed in them is dead. Too many power brokers involved in those files for them to come out within their lifetimes. Most of us will likely be dead before they're released as well. I would assume family members won't want names leaking until a generation or two down the line, when it'll be acceptable to say, "Prior generations had different standards," and they can paint all of society as being complicit in their shittery.

Re: (Score:2)

by drinkypoo ( 153816 )

I don't believe that we will, no. They are destroying them instead of archiving them. The people who would prevent that would release them now if they had them.

Re: (Score:2)

by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 )

> Nobody gives a flying purple nurple about JFK.

RFK Jr on the other hand... Any files on him? Any current worm - I mean, brain - scans?

Re: (Score:3)

by hey! ( 33014 )

All you need to know about RFK's fitness for office is out in public for everyone to see.

Re: (Score:1)

by bill_mcgonigle ( 4333 ) *

There's no dichotomy here - both are imperative.

The Gaza activists are especially interested in the (illegally) withheld JFK documents.

Both are being withheld to protect the same interests.

On Prem AI? (Score:1)

by Gilgaron ( 575091 )

So... did they deploy an on prem AI or are they shoving all of our sensitive documents into public AI models? Because given the opsec of the rest of the administration I have a feeling that there's a lot of stuff out in the wild that isn't supposed to be now.

Re: (Score:2)

by CubicleZombie ( 2590497 )

Everything classified is air gapped. DoD absolutely has their own internal AI.

Re: (Score:3)

by Jack9 ( 11421 )

> Everything classified is air gapped.

Except for the classified info that's texted?

Re: (Score:2)

by bill_mcgonigle ( 4333 ) *

Oh?

[1]https://aws.amazon.com/federal... [amazon.com]

CIA gave Amazon a $600M contract a few years back.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/federal/us-intelligence-community/

Re: On Prem AI? (Score:2)

by Big Hairy Gorilla ( 9839972 )

I'll bet a beer it is contracted out. Nobody nurtures in-house expertise anymore, it's considered stupid to think for yourself anymore.

Cheaper to pay by the month and requires no thought. Which is how you become dependent on third parties. Even core management functions are often contacted out now.

OMG (Score:3)

by RobinH ( 124750 )

Wait, the US intelligence community is putting a bunch of their files through an unproven technology that's renowned for making mistakes, and they're just going to trust the output? Time to get the popcorn!

Re: (Score:2)

by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 )

> Wait, the US intelligence community is putting a bunch of their files through an unproven technology that's renowned for making mistakes, and they're just going to trust the output? Time to get the popcorn!

TL;DR: You could have just said [1]PDB [wikipedia.org]. :-)

(Which is, apparently, also too long and, currently, requires "reading". *sigh*)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President's_Daily_Brief

Great job redacting SSNs (Score:4, Interesting)

by pavon ( 30274 )

You mean the JFK documents that were released containing hundreds of social security numbers of federal employees? Not exactly a glowing recommendation.

Re: (Score:2)

by rossdee ( 243626 )

I thought that the big advantage we had in the Cuba missile crisis was the SSBNs, not the SSNs

whatever happened to transparent government? (Score:2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward

A government that keeps secrets is most likely a corrupt and dishonest government.

The "national security" excuse is just that, an excuse. And its an excuse that is metastacizing until nearly everything becomes "classified" somehow.

In my view, if a government is not open and transparent it should be abolished and replaced. simple as that.

Re:whatever happened to transparent government? (Score:4, Insightful)

by hey! ( 33014 )

No, there are all kinds of information the government has that are legitimately not available. Sensitive data on private citizens, for example, which is why people are worried about unvetted DOGE employees getting unfettered access to federal systems. Information that would put witnesses in ongoing criminal investigations at risk. Military operations in progress and intelligence assets in use.

The problem is ever since there has been a legal means to keep that information secret, it's also been used to cover up government mistake and misconduct. It's perfectly reasonable for a government to keep things from its citizens *if there is a specific and articulable justification* that can withstand critical examination.

And sometimes those justifications are overridden by public interest concerns -- specifically when officials really want to bury something like the Pentagon Papers because they are embarrassing to the government. "Embarrassing to the government" should be an argument against secrecy, because of the public interest in knowing the government is doing embarrassing things. In the end, the embarrassment caused by the Pentagon Papers was *good* for the country.

Psst... here's a secret (Score:2)

by ebunga ( 95613 )

They've been using all sorts of fun tools for a lot longer than you would expect. No futher information.

so embaressing (Score:2)

by WolfgangVL ( 3494585 )

Watching these clowns jiggle keys in the publics face and the public just all-the-way goes for it.

We truly are a nation of dipshits.

Re: (Score:2)

by Local ID10T ( 790134 )

Posse Comitatus Ac... ooh shiny. What were we talking about?

from JFK to The Mystery of Al Capone's vault (Score:2)

by OrangeTide ( 124937 )

It's all Boomer shit, nobody cares!

Release Gitmo and ICE detection files.

And political leaders need to actually talk about the ongoing and recent open conflicts and shadow wars that the US has been involved in. NEITHER side wants to talk about any of the nasty shit we've been up to in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Operation Juniper Shield (Cameroon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria), Somalia, Afghanistan (heavy CIA presence), Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Northwest Pakistan), Iran

Bush already cleaned house (Score:1)

by p51d007 ( 656414 )

When Bush was head of the CIA, you know he "cleaned house" and destroyed any good evidence. I was 4 years old when that happened. Only thing I remember about it was the Saturday cartoons were not on because of it. Didn't understand it then... Anyone connected to the assassination if they were 20 years old is in their 80's today, if it was a conspiracy, they are either dead or almost dead, so what good would it do to "find the answer" if there was one? Hold the children who's parent(s) did it responsible?

1st Information Operations Command in da house (Score:2)

by Mirnotoriety ( 10462951 )

[1]1st Information Operations Command [army.mil] (Land) – 1st IO CMD. Key functions: Social Media Overwatch.

[1] https://www.1stio.army.mil/

What has Intel to do... (Score:2)

by LordHighExecutioner ( 4245243 )

....with JFK assassination ? And what about AMD and NVIDIA ?

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