Dawn Meyerriecks, Vice President of the CIA's Technology Development Department, recently announced at an intelligence conference that they had undertaken work to ensure that the main enemy was not foreign agents, but that they were adapting to the new scheme.
Speaking to CNN after Konferanstan, Meyerriecks said other countries have been using artificial intelligence for many years to follow enemy agents. Speaking of the difficulties faced by current CIA spies, Meyerriecks cautioned that the modern world has become an increasingly challenging place for human casualties. But the CIA has no intention of giving up. The oldest intelligence agency in America is transforming from a structure that sends people to various points of the world to gather information, using a computer to accomplish its tasks more effectively.
The transition from humans to computers is something that the CIA is actually preparing for more than 30 years. Some of the reports prepared in 1984 mention the AI Steering Group, which was established in the previous year.
The task of this group was to present the status of artificial intelligence research and development work to CIA bosses in monthly reports. In fact, while many people define artificial intelligence as 'science fiction', we can say that the CIA has seen the future of artificial intelligence technology. Reports in those years addressed a number of issues, including the training of agents, the support of artificial intelligence developers in both academic and professional circles, and the establishment of an open source artificial intelligence clearinghouse for government agencies to use.
The problem of today's spies is the same as yesterday's spies; need to be invisible. What changes is the opponents. What today's agents need to do is not to fool people with fake documents and well-constructed lies, but to trick computers that have the capacity to pick a face they see in a crowd of people. With a few innovations to be made in satellite and geospatial intelligence fields, it is highly unlikely that human spies will have a chance against the next generation of artificial intelligence.