AI in National Security: A Secure and Explainable Governance Framework

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has improved national security and intelligence analysis, through things like surveillance, cyber defense, predictive threat detection, and automated monitoring systems, but you know it is not only smooth sailing. When dependence on AI increases it also brings serious problems tied to privacy violations, biased decisions, little to no transparency, adversarial attacks, and even unauthorized access to sensitive defense technologies. In this paper we propose a Secure and Explainable AI Governance Framework that kind of ties together explainable AI, human oversight, anti-manipulation security mechanisms, ethical governance, and intellectual property protection for AI-based national-security systems. The idea is that this framework helps enable transparent, accountable, and secure deployment of AI technologies, while at the same time lowering risks that come from uncontrolled or unethical AI usage in defense and intelligence operations.

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