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The US Government Plans To Use AI To Help Redact Documents

AI use for FOIA requests might result in even more information being withheld.

Tarun Mottlia

Via Engadget

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The US Government Plans To Use AI To Help Redact Documents
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The DHS will use Google's AI tools to recommend information to be blacked out of FOIA requests.

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Document redactions have been in the spotlight lately thanks to the US Justice Department's Epstein file release, which used it to black out text in millions of documents. Now, the government plans to use AI to handle that redaction chore for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, according to GitHub documents seen by The Washington Post.

Those documents state that US Customs…

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