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Mission Implausible

The Singularity War and How to Hack Minds (w/ Anthony Vinci)

Mission Implausible

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.9593 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Former senior intelligence officer and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution explores how artificial intelligence, big data, and information warfare are fundamentally reshaping global intelligence. He forsees the coming “Singularity War” — a future of fully autonomous intelligence and warfare systems. Now AI enables small groups or even individuals to carry out attacks once reserved for nation-states, including psychological manipulation. How do we defend against this? What tools does a democracy have that others don’t?

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0:00.0

Mission Implausible is now something you can watch.

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Just go to YouTube and search Mission Implausible Podcast, or click on the link to our channel

0:08.2

in our show notes.

0:10.8

I'm John Seifer, and I'm Jerry O'Shea.

0:13.6

We have over 60 years of experience as clandestine officers in the CIA, serving in high-risk

0:19.0

areas all around the world.

0:20.3

And part of our job was creating conspiracies to deceive our adversaries.

0:25.1

Now, we're going to use that experience to investigate the conspiracy theories everyone's talking about,

0:30.1

as well as some you may not have heard.

0:31.8

Could they be true, or are we being manipulated?

0:34.1

We'll find out now on Mission Implausible.

0:46.7

Today's guest is Anthony Vincey, a former intelligence officer and entrepreneur who served as the chief technology officer at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

0:50.9

He's the author of a recent book titled The Fourth Intelligence Revolution, where he argues

0:55.0

that we're entering a new era in intelligence, one shaped by rapid technological change, and the

0:59.4

growing challenge of China, AI, and the overwhelming volumes of data that can be used against us.

1:04.7

So in this conversation, we're going to dig into what that fourth revolution looks like,

1:08.3

what it changes for national security and organizations beyond government,

1:11.8

and what listeners should be paying attention to as AI helps spread conspiracies and impacts intelligence.

1:16.7

So welcome, Anthony.

1:17.9

Thanks for having me on. Appreciate it.

1:19.7

Yeah, of course. So in your book, you describe how intelligence has changed, and Jerry and I both

1:24.9

agree with that, specifically the rise of mass data, the data that we all

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