Tulsi Gabbard Fed JFK Files Into AI Program to Find Out What Should and Shouldn’t Remain Classified

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed this week that she used an AI program to help determine what documents from the JFK files to keep classified.

Gabbard touted the work she’s been doing with AI since taking office at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. Gabbard has thus far overseen the release of thousands of pages of material related to the assassination of late President John F. Kennedy, and she revealed on Tuesday that AI helped quicken that work, shortening what could have taken months to years to accomplish.

An investigation ultimately determined Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman behind Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, but conspiracy theories have run rampant for decades. The latest documents released in March have done little to quiet or confirm any of those conspiracy theories.

“We have been able to do that through the use of AI tools far more quickly than what was done previously — which was to have humans go through and look at every single one of these pages,” Gabbard told the technology conference.

Using AI, the former congresswoman argued, in areas like human resources or to go over sensitive material, frees up agents to focus on gathering and better analyzing information.

“How do we look at the available tools that exist — largely in the private sector — to make it so that our intelligence professionals, both collectors and analysts, are able to focus their time and energy on the things that only they can do,” Gabbard said.