‘AI-BOM’ bombs: Army backs off, will demand less detailed data from AI vendors
by Breaking Defense
Breaking Defense— Instead of demanding an exhaustive “AI Bill of Materials.” the Army will only ask contractors for a “baseball card” of key stats on their AI — while building up its in-house capacity to check for bad code or “poisoned” data.
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