“Top secret” is no longer the key to good intel in an AI world, report finds

AXIOS April 16, 2024
Ryan Heath

AI’s advent means the U.S. intelligence community must revamp its traditional way of doing business, according to a new report from an Eric Schmidt-backed national security think tank.

The big picture: Today’s intelligence systems cannot keep pace with the explosion of data now available, requiring “rapid” adoption of generative AI to keep an intelligence advantage over rival powers.

• The U.S. intelligence community “risks surprise, intelligence failure, and even an attrition of its importance” unless it embraces AI’s capacity to process floods of data, according to the report from the Special Competitive Studies Project.
• The federal government needs to think more in terms of “national competitiveness” than “national security,” given the wider range of technologies now used to attack U.S....

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