[Cryptography] Using AI to identify state secrets.

[Ray Dillinger]

So some researchers picked over recent dumps of unclassified and secret
information with a neural network, training it to identify features
more likely to occur in documents marked secret.  This turns out to be
about 90% predictable, with a few caveats about some categories being
far more predictable than others.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00356

Interesting article.

Obviously, this could also be used to pick over unclassified information
like newspaper articles and identify things ("false positives") that
some state actor *ought* to have made secret or might have *preferred*
to have made secret but for some reason didn't or couldn't.  IMO that
could turn it into a really productive intelligence asset.

					Bear

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