Author Amy Zegart on the future of American intelligence - "Intelligence Matters"
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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Amy Zegart, the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University about her new book, "Spies, Lies and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence." Morell and Zegart discuss the impact of emerging technologies on intelligence collection and analysis, both of which, Zegart says, have been fundamentally changed by developments like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and commercial satellite imagery. Zegart also outlines the five "mores" - more threats, more speed, more data, more customers and more competitors - that she says have made the work of intelligence newly challenging.
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ON THE BROAD EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY ON INTELLIGENCE: "[T]echnology is increasing the scale and speed of counterintelligence problems, right? Robert Hanssen took years to ferret documents to the Russians, whereas now counterintelligence breaches like Chelsea Manning, like Edward Snowden, can take minutes to access millions of pages of documents, for example. So technology is affecting everything. It's affecting what we collect, how we collect, how we analyze and how policymakers use information."