Jeff Stein reports that classified estimates put NSA spending on AI model testing at billions of dollars a year
Washington Sun / Hacker News (171pts, 101 comments)·low signal
The Washington Sun piece (September 24) says the money comes from classified parts of the national security budget and that compute is the largest cost. That is far above public proposals such as the roughly $20M a year in the AI Security and Innovation Act. The Pentagon declined to discuss 'resource allocation for its AI tools'. The piece reopens the question of whether labs should pay for independent audits rather than taxpayers.