MiX Indicators
Department of Homeland Security · OHS
Overview
- Development stage
- In development or acquisitionSource: a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.
- High-impact designation
- Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
- Impact justification
- Not reported
- Start date
- Not reported
- Withheld from public reporting
- Not reported
Mission
- Topic area
- Health and Medical
- Operational functions
- No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology
Problem the AI is intended to solve
Identification of emerging health threats.
Expected benefits
Online news and other open-source media can be used to quickly detect and respond to emerging health security threats. However, it is not practical for people to read and scan all online news stories every day for key terms. AI/ML makes it possible to read, digest and organize news stories to look for key threat terms. AI/ML will also be used to predict normal trends in news stories. This makes it possible to detect when an unusual number of health security threat terms are found in the news. This use of AI/ML helps prepare for, respond to, and protect from potential health security threats.
System outputs
The main AI system output will be anomaly detection which represents two elements: 1) AI/ML predictions for usual trends in news story key terms vs. 2) the actual daily number of mentions for key terms in the news. When the actual number of mentions for key terms exceeds modeled predictions, these will be detected as anomalies.
Technology
- AI classification
- Natural language processingSource: Natural Language Processing: AI that processes, interprets, and shares information in human language.
- System name(s)
- Not reported
- Custom-developed code
- Not reported
- Public source code
- Not reported
Sourcing
- How it was built
- Not reported
- Vendor (as reported)
- Not reported
- Vendors (standardized)
- None on the standard list
A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.
Data and privacy
- Involves PII
- Not reported
- Privacy Impact Assessment
- Not reported
- Authorization to Operate
- Not reported
- Demographic features
- Not reported
- Training and evaluation data
- Not reported
- Federal Data Catalog
- Not reported
Governance
0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.
Potential impacts and how they were identified
Not reported