Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Artificial intelligence has taken the world by storm. But despite the hype around personalized avatars or podcast language translation, artificial intelligence is not only impacting the creative spheres; in fact it’s hard to find an industry that isn’t being touched by this technology – and defense of our country is far from excluded. In this episode, originally recorded in the heart of Washington DC his January during a16z’s American Dynamism Summit, a16z General Partner Martin Casado and a16z enterprise editor. Derrick Harris are joined by the first-ever CTO of the CIA, Nand Mulchandani. In this wide-ranging conversation, they discuss the evolving relationship between analysts and AI, how governments can keep up with this exponential technology, and finally, how it’s impacting both offense and defense. This episode is essential listening for anyone interested in the intersection of technology, national security, and policy-making in the age of artificial intelligence. Stay tuned for more exclusive conversations from a16z's second annual American Dynamism Summit in Washington DC.

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0:00.0	We're a human intelligence operation.
0:04.0	We can now make anybody be anybody and sound like anybody and look like anybody.
0:08.0	Stop thinking about automating, getting a 10%, 20%, 30% on your job.
0:14.0	Tell me in 5 to 10 years, how are you going to reimagine your job?
0:18.6	This is no like asymmetric superpower, which by the way is very, very different
0:21.7	than the internet.
0:23.0	It's because policy makers now have a knob, where we now have to decide explicitly this or that.
0:30.0	These are the largest compute projects that mankind has ever done before.
0:33.5	Like we've never done anything close to this.
0:35.5	Life finds a way.
0:37.5	Which if there's demand for it, people will supply it.
0:40.5	Artificial Intelligence has taken this world by storm.
0:44.8	I mean, just think about it.
0:46.4	Here in 2024, anyone with an internet connection and a few minutes to spare
0:51.6	can literally spin up a Disney avatar of themselves,
0:54.8	translate a foreign podcast into their native language,
0:57.7	and even get help writing their vows.
1:00.8	But artificial intelligence is not just impacting the creative spheres.
1:04.3	In fact, you'll be hard-pressed to identify an industry that's not touched by this
1:09.2	technology. And the defense of our country is no exception.
1:14.0	In today's episode originally recorded in the heart of Washington DC back in January during
1:20.1	A16Z's American Dynamism Summit,
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