The Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) is piloting synthetic intelligence to coach officers who evaluate candidates for refugee standing in the US, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas advised reporters on Tuesday.
The work addresses what Mayorkas stated is “labor-intensive” instruction that sometimes includes senior personnel. On this pilot, he stated, DHS is coaching machines to behave like refugees so officers can follow interviewing them.
“Refugee candidates, given the trauma that they’ve endured, are reticent to be forthcoming in describing that trauma,” he stated. “So we’re educating the machine to be reticent as properly” and to undertake different “traits” of candidates.
The remarks, made on the sidelines of the security-focused RSA Convention in San Francisco, elaborate on AI initiatives that DHS introduced earlier this yr. The division has stated it deliberate to develop an interactive app to complement its coaching of immigration officers, drawing on so-called generative AI that creates novel content material primarily based on previous information.
Particularly, United States Citizenship and Immigration Providers, an company inside DHS, would construct an AI program that tailor-made coaching supplies to officers’ wants and put together them to make extra correct choices, the division stated.
AI is not going to make immigration choices themselves, DHS advised Reuters. The AI will know country-specific situations and different data to assist officers, Mayorkas stated.
The pilot provides to the various exams in business and authorities searching for to scale back prices and enhance efficiency by means of AI, notably after ChatGPT’s viral launch in 2022. Such experimentation has not been with out issues, together with points with translation, incorrect timeframes and pronouns.
Amongst extra “superior” deployments of AI, Mayorkas stated the division has labored to identify anomalies when industrial vehicles and passenger autos make border crossings. The purpose, he stated, is to assist the division detect smuggling makes an attempt for bringing fentanyl and different contraband into the US.
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