{"id":16901,"date":"2024-12-17T14:37:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/amazon-hosted-ai-tool-for-uk-military-recruitment-carries-risk-of-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T14:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T13:37:29","slug":"amazon-hosted-ai-tool-for-uk-military-recruitment-carries-risk-of-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/amazon-hosted-ai-tool-for-uk-military-recruitment-carries-risk-of-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon-hosted AI tool for UK military recruitment \u2018carries risk of data breach\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defence says risk is low and \u2018robust safeguards\u2019 have been put in place by suppliers<\/p>\n<p>An artificial intelligence tool hosted by Amazon and designed to boost UK Ministry of Defence recruitment puts defence personnel at risk of being identified publicly, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/algorithmic-transparency-records\/mod-textio\">a government assessment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Data used in the automated system to improve the drafting of defence job adverts and attract more diverse candidates by improving the inclusiveness language, includes names, roles and emails of military personnel and is stored by Amazon in the US. This means \u201ca data breach may have concerning consequences, ie identification of defence personnel\u201d, according to documents detailing government AI systems published for the first time today.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility of inappropriate lesson material being generated by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/algorithmic-transparency-records\/oak-national-academy-aila-oaks-ai-lesson-assistant\">AI-powered lesson-planning tool <\/a>used by teachers based on Open AI\u2019s powerful large language model, GPT-4o. The AI saves teachers time and can personalise lesson plans rapidly in a way that may otherwise not be possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHallucinations\u201d by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/algorithmic-transparency-records\/cafcass-genesys-chatbot\">chatbot deployed to answer queries about the welfare of children<\/a> in the family courts. However, it also offers round the clock information and reduces queue times for people who need to speak to a human agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErroneous operation of the code\u201d and \u201cincorrect input data\u201d in HM Treasury\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/algorithmic-transparency-records\/hmt-modelling-policy-engine\">PolicyEngine<\/a> that uses machine learning to model tax and benefit changes \u201cwith greater accuracy than existing approaches\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA degradation of human reasoning\u201d if users of an AI to prioritise food hygiene inspection risks become over-reliant on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/algorithmic-transparency-records\/food-standards-agency-food-hygiene-rating-scheme-ai#benefit\">the system<\/a>. It may also result in \u201cconsistently scoring establishments of a certain type much lower\u201d, but it should also mean faster inspections of places that are more likely to break hygiene rules.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/17\/amazon-hosted-ai-tool-for-uk-military-recruitment-carries-risk-of-data-breach\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2dcf0c2e901ee2a833471704512ddf837368f304\/0_275_8256_4954\/master\/8256.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cbbc771b8a5f3da47c3bb82566a55c9a\" title=\"Amazon-hosted AI tool for UK military recruitment \u2018carries risk of data breach\u2019\" \/>Ministry of Defence says risk is low and \u2018robust safeguards\u2019 have been put in place by suppliers<br \/>\nAn artificial intelligence tool hosted by Amazon and designed to boost UK Ministry of Defence recruitment puts defence personnel at risk of being identified publicly, according to a government assessment.<br \/>\nData used in the automated system to improve the drafting of defence job adverts and attract more diverse candidates by improving the inclusiveness language, includes names, roles and emails of military personnel and is stored by Amazon in the US. This means \u201ca data breach may have concerning consequences, ie identification of defence personnel\u201d, according to documents detailing government AI systems published for the first time today.<br \/>\nThe possibility of inappropriate lesson material being generated by a AI-powered lesson-planning tool used by teachers based on Open AI\u2019s powerful large language model, GPT-4o. The AI saves teachers time and can personalise lesson plans rapidly in a way that may otherwise not be possible.<br \/>\n\u201cHallucinations\u201d by a chatbot deployed to answer queries about the welfare of children in the family courts. However, it also offers round the clock information and reduces queue times for people who need to speak to a human agent.<br \/>\n\u201cErroneous operation of the code\u201d and \u201cincorrect input data\u201d in HM Treasury\u2019s new PolicyEngine that uses machine learning to model tax and benefit changes \u201cwith greater accuracy than existing approaches\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cA degradation of human reasoning\u201d if users of an AI to prioritise food hygiene inspection risks become over-reliant on the system. It may also result in \u201cconsistently scoring establishments of a certain type much lower\u201d, but it should also mean faster inspections of places that are more likely to break hygiene rules. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defence says risk is low and \u2018robust safeguards\u2019 have been put in place by suppliers An artificial intelligence tool hosted by Amazon and designed to boost UK Ministry of Defence recruitment puts defence personnel at risk of being identified publicly, according to a government assessment. Data used in the automated system to improve &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/amazon-hosted-ai-tool-for-uk-military-recruitment-carries-risk-of-data-breach\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon-hosted AI tool for UK military recruitment \u2018carries risk of data breach\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}