Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, speaks during a new conference in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021.
WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security will establish a new task force to examine how the government can use artificial intelligence technology to protect the country.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the task force Friday during a speech at a Council on Foreign Relations event.
Mayorkas gave two examples of how the task force will help determine how AI could be used to fine-tune the agency's work.
Mayorkas asked Homeland Security Advisory Council Co-Chair Jamie Gorelick to study "the intersection of AI and homeland security and deliver findings that will help guide our use of it and defense against it."