The US Department of Homeland Security just handed AI a very sensitive job: deciding what the public gets to see in FOIA requests.
Every year, millions of citizens file Freedom of Information Act requests to access government documents, and staff spend months figuring out what to release and what to redact.
The new plan has AI reading requests, drafting responses, and even recommending which sections should be blacked out before a human ever sees the final file.
That means a machine is now involved in deciding what citizens deserve to know, and that is a big deal because one wrong call could either leak sensitive information or bury something that should have been public.
Faster processing sounds great on paper, but here is the question nobody is asking loudly enough: does an algorithm actually know the difference between a national security file and a document that's just embarrassing for someone in power?
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