DOD Must Explain FOIA Exemption In AI Usage Case, Judge Says

( September 18, 2024, 11:03 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Defense (DOD) has not adequately explained how a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by a journalist seeking information about the use of artificial intelligence implicates the critical infrastructure exemption on which it relies for withholding 5,000 pages of otherwise responsive documents, a federal judge in the District of Columbia said in denying without prejudice cross-motions for summary judgment....