DOD- AI & The possibility of a Stronger, Faster Intelligence Community

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May 2023 - Newsletter

1) Artificial Intelligence – The possibility?

2) Highlighted Training Courses

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On May, 2023,

AI- the possibility of a ‘Stronger, Faster’ Intelligence Community

But, caution is needed to make sure the technology doesn’t go too far.

Generative AI could make U.S. intelligence better, but only if done with caution, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s director says.

According to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency “It definitely can make us better, faster, stronger. We have to go carefully, adding that AI is something the agency has been slow to embrace but is working on. We're trying to be faster, we're trying to be better.”

Generative AI—which uses prompts to write text, create video, even produce music—could be a tremendous assistant to analysts and while it will affect the human workforce, it won’t completely replace it.

When thinking about AI—pattern analysis and clustering of concepts, these things can do a lot of good; it can make our job easier with a lot of information put in. But it can’t determine intent. Now it can get you on the road to what you think might be intent, but this is where critical-thinking analysts really come in.

Multiple defense and AI experts have expressed excitement or fear of the technology’s potential—and as Congress weighs the pros and cons of regulating it.

But when it comes to military use, some believe there may not be as much cause for concern. The military is actually an area where we don’t need to worry so much about figuring this out as if it is Pandora box opening for the first time. 

However, society as a whole—from economists to the entertainment industry—may not be ready because other sectors haven’t been thinking about the ethical problems of AI for as long as the Defense Department has and will continue.

But the trick to integrating generative AI, which is already used to improve imagery, with intelligence gathering could be exploiting its benefits without curtailing the technology’s potential.

AI won’t spell the end of the world nor is it the answer to everything as stated by the former principal deputy director of national intelligence. Our challenge is how we take advantage of what's happening without slowing it too much.

And any pause in developing AI as a tool for the Defense Department, could have its own consequences.

Some have argued for a six-month pause, which personally the Pentagon’s chief information officer, John Sherman does not advocate for. If we stop, guess who is not going to stop?

Our Potential adversaries overseas.

US cyber leaders look to AI to augment network activities

The increasing intricacy of military networks and the digital savvy of other world powers is making artificial intelligence and related programs more desirable for U.S. cyber leaders.

With an explosion of high-tech devices and vehicles and the vast amount of data they pass back and forth come additional security and responsiveness demands. Anything the United States can do to buy down that complexity, by employing AI and machine learning, would be absolutely fantastic, according to the leader of Army Cyber Command.

“We fly planes on autopilot, we land on autopilot. This is not scary to run a network in an automated way.”

Automation is a key piece of the Pentagon’s adoption of zero trust, a new cybersecurity paradigm. The approach assumes networks are jeopardized, requiring perpetual validation of users, devices and access. The practice is often likened to “never trust, always verify.”

Defense officials have imposed a fiscal 2027 deadline to implement a level of zero trust, which totals more than 100 activities, capabilities and so-called pillars.

Read more: Zero Trust blog

2. Highlighted Training Artificial Intelligence Courses
   
   -Threat Intelligence Analyst
   
   -AI-900T00 - Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
   
   -AI-102T00 Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution
   
   -Cisco Introduction to Artificial Intelligence(CIAI)
   
   -Machine Learning Essentials with Python
   
   -Hands-On Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, AI Programming & Machine Learning
   
   -AZ-040T00: Automating Administration with PowerShell
   
   -Building Batch Data Analytics Solutions on AWS
   
   -Introduction to R Programming for Data Science & Analytics
   
   -DP-500T00 Designing and Implementing Enterprise-Scale Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Azure and --Microsoft Power BI
   
   -Introduction to AI in Test Automation

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