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b'A directive to U.S. embassies in India and Pakistan requesting an urgent evaluation of economic and financial vulnerabilities in those countries.\\nA report from the embassy in Sofia detailing discord in the Bulgarian Socialist Party.\\nAnd an internal summary, prepared by the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright\\u2019s meeting with President Nelson Mandela in South Africa.\\nThose messages are among dozens of newly released diplomatic cables from late 1997. The State Department declassified the cables using a machine learning tool developed by the agency over the past year. The cables were not subject to any Freedom of Information Act requests, but State officials determined copies of the documents could be publicly released through the \\u201cproactive disclosure\\u201d provision of FOIA.\\nEric Stein, the deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Global Information Services, called it \\u201cthe first ever proactive disclosure of previously classified records . . . using machine learning and AI.\\u201d\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'