How AI Is Transforming National Security
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🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Or on the flip side — whether it's going to put us out of a job. But how would you be thinking about AI... if you were in charge of a major US intelligence agency?
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly spoke to FBI Director Chris Wray and National Security Agency Director Paul Nakasone about Artificial Intelligence as a national security threat.
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| 0:00.0 | More than three decades ago, the makers of the spy thriller, Sneakers, imagined a world where a tool existed to hack into all the major government computer systems. |
| 0:12.0 | Give me the number for something impossible to access. |
| 0:15.0 | What about this? |
| 0:16.0 | Federal Reserve Transfer No to Call Pepper, Virginia. |
| 0:18.0 | That's sure good luck. |
| 0:20.0 | That'll do. |
| 0:21.0 | Punch it in. Okay. You won't get in. |
| 0:25.0 | Look at this place. |
| 0:27.0 | Anybody want to shut down the Federal Reserve? |
| 0:31.0 | National Power Grid? |
| 0:32.0 | Anybody want to black out New England? |
| 0:34.0 | Okay. |
| 0:35.0 | Carl, what else? |
| 0:37.0 | Air traffic control system. |
| 0:39.0 | Now, 30 years after the movie's release, data breaches in all sorts of computer systems, business, |
| 0:46.1 | government, personal, there are regular occurrence. |
| 0:49.4 | Aqua Facts, the credit monitoring company says the social security numbers of |
| 0:53.8 | 143 million Americans may have been exposed. |
| 0:57.6 | One of the nation's largest health care providers is under siege. A major cyber |
| 1:02.2 | attack forcing hospital ERs to turn away patients in multiple |
| 1:06.5 | states using computers as portals both to information and to chaos is no longer fantasy. In 2022 more than 400 million |
| 1:17.1 | Americans had their personal information compromised and they're not the only |
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