The US Government Plans To Use AI To Help Redact Documents

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 and Border Protection, part of the Department of Homeland Security, will use Google's AI tools to recommend information that FOIA officers should redact. By the end of September, the DHS will use AI for documents that make up over 10 percent of FOIA requests, around 100,000 to 140,000 in all.

Following those recommendations, DHS employees will review the cases to ensure the requester gets what the document calls...

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