The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) stands at the dawn of a new era of technological innovation and transformation unprecedented in its history. Driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and associated emerging technologies, including cloud computing, advanced sensors, and big data analytics, the approaching “AI era” will transform both the nature of the global threats the IC is responsible for assessing and the IC’s ability to accurately detect and assess them. Through all of this, the core mission of the IC will remain unchanged: to understand what is happening in the world, to deliver timely, accurate, and insightful analysis of those threats and developments to U.S. policymakers, and to provide U.S. leaders decision making advantage over competitors. What will change is the IC’s ability to fulfill this mission if it does not adapt to the new AI era. Read More

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