Policy Brief

The U.S. Intelligence Community faces a moment of reckoning and AI lies at the heart of it. Since 9/11, America's intelligence agencies have become hardwired to fight terrorism. Today's threat landscape, however, is changing dramatically, with a resurgence of great power competition and the rise of cyber threats enabling states and non-state actors to spy, steal, disrupt, destroy, and deceive across vast distances -- all without firing a shot. The Intelligence Community (IC) faces a moment of reckoning. If the IC cannot adopt AI and other emerging technologies successfully, it risks failure.