The Moment of Reckoning: AI and the Future of U.S. Intelligence
The Moment of Reckoning: AI and the Future of U.S. Intelligence
The Moment of Reckoning: AI and the Future of U.S. Intelligence
The U.S. Intelligence Community faces a moment of reckoning and AI lies at the heart of it. Since 9/11, America’s intelligence agencies have become hardwired to fight terrorism. Today’s threat landscape, however, is changing dramatically, with a resurgence of great power competition and the rise of cyber threats enabling states and non-state actors to spy, steal, disrupt, destroy, and deceive across vast distances — all without firing a shot.
Key Takeaways
The Intelligence Community (IC) faces a moment of reckoning. If the IC cannot adopt AI and other emerging technologies successfully, it risks failure.
AI is critical to maintaining America’s decision advantage — helping intelligence agencies harness the explosion of open-source data with increased precision, speed, and analytic power to detect hidden and emerging patterns.
AI’s promise lies in augmenting human intelligence collectors and analysts, not replacing them.
The most important near- term steps are developing a comprehensive intelligence and technology strategy, establishing a new open-source intelligence agency, making it easier to recruit scientific and engineering talent, and bridging the divide between government, industry, and academia.
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