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Berto Jongman: Fear Artificial Stupidity Not Artificial Intelligence

Fear artificial stupidity, not artificial intelligence Stephen Hawking thinks computers may surpass human intelligence and take over the world. We won’t ever be silicon slaves, insists an AI expert Mark Bishop in NewScientist It is not often that you are obliged to proclaim a much-loved genius wrong, but in his alarming prediction on artificial intelligence …

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Stephen Marrin: Improving Intelligence Studies as an Academic Discipline

Improving Intelligence Studies as an Academic Discipline Intelligence and National Security, 22 October 2014 In recent years there has been significant growth in the numbers and kinds of intelligence-related educational and training opportunities, with the knowledge taught in these courses and programs derived from the body of intelligence studies scholarship. The question posed here is: …

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Chuck Spinney: Marisa Taylor on Criminally Dysfunctional Intelligence and Defense “Whistleblower” System — Screw the Truth, Kill the Messenger

Below is superb piece of reportage by Marisa Taylor of the Washington McClatchy bureau.  By a meticulous compilation of facts, Ms. Taylor has painted a detailed portrait of how this homeostatic control system protects normalcy in bureaucratic cultures.  The only point I would disagree with is her characterization of this system as being “broken.” To my thinking, …

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Robert Steele: Secret Torture versus Open Source Intelligence

Secret Torture versus Open Source Intelligence OpEdNews, 23 December 2014 In 1989, as a former spy for the CIA who became the second-ranking civilian in Marine Corps Intelligence, I ghost-wrote an article for the Commandant of the Marine Corps, “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990’s.” This was the first article to distinguish between the conventional …

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Gareth Porter: Han Blix Warns Against False Intelligence Being Used to Pressure Iran, Mislead US Policymakers

Ex-IAEA Chief Warns on Using Unverified Intel to Pressure Iran EXTRACT Blix, who clashed with US officials when he was head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq from 2000 to 2003, said he has long been skeptical of intelligence that has been used to …

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Uri Bar-Joseph: Conscious Intelligence Failure

PDF (28 Pages): 2009 Intelligence Failure by Uri Bar-Joseph and Jack Levy The literature generally traces major intelligence failures to an ambiguous threat environment compounded by the adversary’s strategic deception, to collective mindsets and individual cognitive biases, and to familiar organizational pathologies. This study aimed to shed more light on the neglected subject of the …

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Marcus Aurelius: US Pacific Fleet N-2 (Intelligence Boss) Relieved Under White House Pressure for Speaking Openly About Chinese Military Plans and Activities

In this age of the daily indiscretion, a relatively senior naval intelligence officer has been openly relieved of duty. He said, orally and in writing, things that conflicted with Administration’s views. Two articles follow: First from Navy Times, a summary that says he was relieved, that he said things that SECDEF, CNO, and CSA either …

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