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


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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 LearnIntelligence
  • 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 (TwitterLinkedIn) to discuss.

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      • CIA Case Officer, Cyber Entrepreneur, Burning Man Volunteer – with Mike Susong (Part 2 of 2, 2002)
      • 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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