Anthony Vinci—co-founder and CEO of Vico, an AI company that empowers judgment and analysis in finance and national security, and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution—joins School of War to discuss the technological evolution of spycraft. How does an intelligence officer operate in a world of rapidly advancing technology? What happens when machines begin to assist, or even replace, human judgment? And are we being spied on constantly?
02:33 - The Job of an Intelligence Officer
03:43 - Technology and Intelligence Work
05:58 - Living Under Surveillance
07:43 - AI as an Intelligence Analyst
09:37 - The Origins of American Intelligence
10:15 - Who Was Wild Bill Donovan?
12:37 - The Modern Intelligence Community
14:25 - The Evolution of Spy Technology
16:39 - The Intelligence Gap Before 9/11
18:58 - A Mossad Chief's Critique
23:10 - The Fourth Intelligence Revolution
25:02 - AI and Autonomy
27:49 - Are We All Being Spied On?
30:05 - China's Political Warfare
34:00 - The COVID Intelligence Failure
39:59 - The Dangers of AI Language Models
48:37 - TikTok and Surveillance
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