Robospooks: the perils of spy agencies’ embrace of artificial intelligence

Verona Burgess explores the Richardson review’s warnings on the need to control the National Intelligence Community’s use of ever-advancing AI.

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves at breakneck speed, a big question looms about the secretive intelligence agencies that are allowed to intrude into the most private pockets of people’s lives in the name of national security: How do you control their use of AI, especially when it is evolving so fast that nobody knows where it is going?

Former spymaster Dennis Richardson’s weighty review of the legal framework of the so-called National Intelligence Community considers this in some depth.