The Robots Will Run the CIA, Too

The CIA currently has 137 different artificial intelligence pilot projects underway, according to a senior agency official. Dawn Meyerriecks, the CIA's deputy director for science and technology, told an audience at the annual Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington that the agency has a "punch list" of different artificial intelligence problems that it wants the private sector to work on. The CIA is already coordinating this work with In-Q-Tel, the agency's venture capital firm, she said. The intelligence community has been eyeing artificial intelligence and machine learning to replace some of the tedious tasks its analysts perform for a while now. In June, Robert Cardillo, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, vowed to bring in robots to do 75 percent of the tasks currently being done by employees to analyze and interpret images beamed in from feeds around the globe and in space.