CIA's Chatbot Stands In For World Leaders 13
The CIA has developed a chatbot to talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers. "Understanding leaders around the world is one of the CIA's most important jobs. Teams of analysts comb through intelligence collected by spies and publicly available information to create profiles of leaders that can predict behaviors," reports the New York Times. "A chatbot powered by artificial intelligence now helps do that work." From the report: The chatbot is part of the spy agency's drive to improve the tools available to CIA analysts and its officers in the field, and to better understand adversaries' technical advances. Core to the effort is to make it easier for companies to work with the most secretive agency. William Burns, CIA director for the past four years, prioritized improving the agency's technology and understanding of how it is used. Incoming Trump administration officials say they plan to build on those initiatives, not tear them down. [...]
The CIA has long used digital tools, spy gadgets and even AI. But with the development of new forms of AI, including the large language models that power chatbots, the agency has stepped up its investments. Making better use of AI, Burns said, is crucial to US competition with China. And better AI models have helped the agency's analysts "digest the avalanche of open-source information out there," he said. The new tools have also helped analysts process clandestinely acquired information, Burns said. New technologies developed by the agency are helping spies navigate cities in authoritarian countries where governments use AI-powered cameras to conduct constant surveillance on their population and foreign spies.
The CIA has long used digital tools, spy gadgets and even AI. But with the development of new forms of AI, including the large language models that power chatbots, the agency has stepped up its investments. Making better use of AI, Burns said, is crucial to US competition with China. And better AI models have helped the agency's analysts "digest the avalanche of open-source information out there," he said. The new tools have also helped analysts process clandestinely acquired information, Burns said. New technologies developed by the agency are helping spies navigate cities in authoritarian countries where governments use AI-powered cameras to conduct constant surveillance on their population and foreign spies.
Pretty sure we have irl AI generated leaders (Score:2)
How the fuck else does one explain the contradictory and self-destructive word salad policies put in place all over the world in recent memory, cuz hey, it superficially resembles some aspect of good leadership and statecraft.
Re: (Score:2)
This one is real. One of yours. Right out of 1933, too.
https://imgur.com/a/m5cbczh [imgur.com]
Question (Score:3)
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Those other European leaders set the stage for Hitler's rise to power by attempting to make Germany pay for the first war. Essentially, Europe punished the German citizens and this paved the way for Hitler rather nicely.
Here is an older version that is actually fun... (Score:2)
Please can we have one to stand in for Trump ... (Score:2)
it should not be too hard to design it with some sense as well as being truthful. This would save world economies much trouble (including that of the USA) as well as avoiding the bad effects of Trump pulling out of climate change mitigation agreements. I could also go on about: human rights; environmental protection; minorities, women & non cis-heterosexual, medical (vaccines), ...
MAGA is second in importance to Trump - the first is what benefits himself and his cronies.
Conducting world policy with ELIZA?! (Score:1)
I don't care how evolved these things are, they're still essentially a fancy ELIZA.
Using this to conduct any kind of world policy with ELIZA is going to take us to places we don't want to go.
For more details see War Games. Falken was trying to build a learning computer.
It's too close to Skynet. C'mon, Joshua, trick the idiot humans into launching their nukes themselves.. feed them the right hallucination, and they will.
AI emulation (Score:2)
An AI already can suss you out after a pretty brief interview, so its no mystery that it can effectively replicate you after having consumed everything you ever said or wrote in public. Once there is an adequately accurate model of you the CIA can just interact with that instead of bothering to deal with you at close range.
"A two-hour conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) model is all it takes to make an accurate replica of someone's personality, researchers have discovered."
https://www.livescie [livescience.com]
Excuse machine (Score:2)
"Our chatbot version of Panama's leader clearly said they had weapons of mass destruction and were preparing for attack."
A classroom of tape recorders like AI leaders (Score:1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Now just substitute "world leaders" for "tape recorders."
What could go wrong?
Thanks, CIA. Ruining South America, Central America, the Middle East, and Europe wasn't enough for you.