德国军事情报机构 MAD 用 AI 筛查联邦国防军申请人的右翼极端主义倾向

German Bundeswehr Uses AI to Screen Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism

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德国军事情报机构 MAD 首次引入专门开发的 AI 系统，用于识别联邦国防军（Bundeswehr）申请人中的右翼极端分子。据《明镜》报道，自今年 7 月起，MAD 已用这套名为“辅助宪法忠诚审查”（uVTP）的软件审查所有申请人的网络活动，检查其是否传播极端主义内容、关注右翼账号或转发此类材料。报道称已有数万名申请人被该 AI 软件审查，低三位数的候选人因缺乏宪法忠诚被筛除。

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The German military intelligence agency MAD has introduced a specially developed AI system for the first time to identify right-wing extremists among applicants for the Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr). According to “Spiegel”, the MAD has been scrutinizing the internet activities of all Bundeswehr applicants since July of this year using the AI software.

This technology, called the Assisted Constitutional Loyalty Check (uVTP), was specially tailored by the intelligence agency in cooperation with a German IT company to meet the specific needs of the MAD. The AI search examines whether applicants themselves propagate extremist content online, follow right-wing accounts, or further disseminate such material.

The magazine reported that tens of thousands of applicants have already been scrutinized by the AI software. A low three-digit number of candidates were filtered out due to a lack of constitutional loyalty. With this software, the MAD, which is responsible for security vetting within the Bundeswehr, is preparing for the expected rapid increase in the number of applicants in the coming years.