CSET’s Jessica Ji shared her expert analysis in an interview published by Science News. The interview discusses the U.S. government’s new action plan to integrate artificial intelligence into federal operations and highlights the significant privacy, cybersecurity, and civil liberties risks of using AI tools on consolidated sensitive data, such as health, financial, and personal records.
When you have consolidated data, you just make a bigger target for adversarial hackers. Rather than having to hack four different agencies, they can just target your consolidated data source. Senior Research Analyst, Jessica Ji
Ji warns that consolidating data creates a larger security risk for government systems, stating, “When you have consolidated data, you just make a bigger target for adversarial hackers. Rather than having to hack four different agencies, they can just target your consolidated data source.”
To read the full interview, visit Science News.