DHS Asst. Secretary Mary Ellen Callahan on safeguarding the U.S. against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats in the age of AI
Episode 22, Jul 03, 05:42 PM
Host Tammy Haddad interviews Mary Ellen Callahan, Assistant Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office. Callahan discusses using new AI guidelines and frameworks to safeguard the United States against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. In a new, first-of-its-kind report, Callahan outlines how DHS will prevent AI from further lowering the barriers to deploying weapons of mass destruction and help find the bad guys sooner.
Mary Ellen Callahan, Assistant Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office, tells host Tammy Haddad AI has not yet made creating a chemical or biological threat easier but following the new DHS report, but it is time to put in the governance, structure and baseline standards (including the the Department of Commerce’s AI Safety Institute) so model developers can apply the right standards to keep as much of the novel chemical and biological threats off of AI as possible.