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"How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Spy Game" – with Mike Susong

2023/2/7
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Summary

Mike Susong joins Andrew to discuss the impact and potential of AI on the intelligence field. Mike is a former CIA case officer who now oversees global intelligence for a risk management company.

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What You’ll Learn

**Intelligence **

  • What AI is and why it matters

  • How the Intelligence Community is using AI 

  • The pros and cons of AI for case officers in the field

  • Ukraine - intersections between AI and OSINT

  • AI in Alan Turing’s Imitation Game

Reflections

  • Replicants, machines and robots

  • Will humans become obsolete?

Notes

Mike Susong (Website), LinkedIn)) is an expert in the growing field of artificial intelligence. He joins Andrew (Twitter); LinkedIn)) to discuss.

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- The Cyber Zeitgeist) – with Cyberwire Host Dave Bittner (2021)

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Beginner Resources

- Machine Leaning: Explain it to me Like I’m 5 Years Old), Bob Deprizio, *Medium *(2020)

- What is AI (Artificial Intelligence)?), *Youtube *(2019) [2 min. video]

- Singularity: Explain it to me Like I’m 5 Years Old), Roey Tzezana, *Futurism *(2017) [Article]

- Alan Turing: The experiment that shaped artificial intelligence), N. Sharkey, BBC (2012) [Article]** **

**Glossary: **

- AGI: Artificial General Intelligence. The unrestricted ability of software to learn, understand, & respond to any intellectual task that a human being is capable of. 

- ANI: Artificial Narrow Intelligence. The restricted ability of software to perform a limited subset of intellectual tasks. 

- Deep Learning: a machine learning technique that teaches computers to learn by example, something that comes naturally for human beings.

- Machine Learning: The field of study interested in building computational systems that can improve their own performance of some task.

- Natural Language Processing: A field of study that aims to analyze and understand human language communications both spoken and textual. 

- Uncanny Divide: Where people feel a sense of unease or revulsion in response to humanoid robots that are highly realistic.

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