ACLU Sues NSA, Defense Department for AI Spy Program Records

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the National Security Agency Thursday, alleging it failed to disclose documents about its deployment of artificial intelligence under federal public records law.

Transparency about the agency’s ramped-up use of AI is critical to allowing the public to understand how their rights are being affected, and the agency hasn’t complied with the federal Freedom of Information Act, according to the ACLU’s lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit, shared first with Bloomberg Law, also names as defendants the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and ...