The Central Intelligence Agency, the same agency that paid researchers to alter their data to protect the CCP during the Coronavirus pandemic, now wants to expand its power to surveil Americans using an AI tool similar to ChatGPT that will comb the internet from stem to stern seeking private information about anyone and everyone, including Americans, it can put into its databases.
Randy Nixon, director of the CIA’s Open-Source Enterprise Division said, in an interview with Bloomberg, “We’ve gone from newspapers and radio to newspapers and television, to newspapers and cable television, to basic internet, to big data, and it keeps going.”
This AI tool is big data, and it’s intended to, according to Nixon “find the needs in in the needle field.” In other words, they want to be able to have any information then need on anyone, at any time, ostensibly to find the guilty but just as easily to find the dissidents. As a matter of fact, this writer assumes the tool is intended far more to police us than to protect us.
The most troubling part of this tool is that it not only gathers data, like ChatGPT, it produces content from that data off of user inquiry. Nixon made that clear when he said of the tool “Then you can it to the next level and start chatting and asking questions of the machines to give you answers, as sourced.” That query might be, “Who owns guns in this neighborhood and what are the best times to catch them off-guard?” Or it might be “Who are the homophobes in this community and where do they live?”
It’s part of a broader government campaign to harness the power of AI and compete with China, which is seeking to become the global leader in the field by 2030. That US push dovetails with the intelligence community’s struggle to process the vast amounts of data that’s now publicly available, amid criticism that it’s been slow to exploit that source.
The CIA’s AI tool will allow users to see the original source of the information that they’re viewing, Nixon said. He said that a chat feature is a logical part of getting intelligence distributed quicker…
“Our collection can just continue to grow and grow with no limitations other than how much things cost.” (said Nixon)
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