AI to Monitor Foreign Press for Threats

jefu writes "According to the New York Times, the US Department of Homeland Security is funding AI tools to monitor the foreign press in order to detect threats to the United States. While the article says there are restrictions on doing this kind of monitoring within the US, there are no restrictions on media outside the US. (No hint is given as to how this would apply to syndicated articles written in the US and published abroad.) This is as yet experimental."

Comments

Re:So, who is NOT for this?

[Captain Splendid]

I think I agree. What's wrong with the US intelligence harvesting news source for information?

KNOW there are some extra liberal slashdotters that think this is crazy or an invasion of privacy. But since this is all public, could one of you explain why you think this is bad/immoral/illegal?

Jesus what a shitty argument. Intelligence agencies can read all the damn newspapers they want - I call that common fucking sense.

Intelligence agencies start raking through my mail/phone logs/etc., THAT's invasion of privacy.

Now fuck off, troll.

From the-everyday-war dept.

[Plutonite]

Come on. There are always extremely high levels of anti-American sentiment, at all times, in all seasons, including weekends.

Is it not enough that we have to put up with a government that likes to continously scare the living crap out of it's citizens from danger that doesn't exist, and hides from them danger that does? Now they want additional sources of omg-thyre-gonna-bomb-us ?

Thanks Dubya, but according to the foreign press sentiment, we should all be in bunkers now chewing on dry biscuits. And if human agents cannot predict criminal attacks on us then I highly doubt some AI ever will.