The CIA is starting to deploy artificial intelligence to boost one of its most hallowed missions: analyzing the plans, intentions and capabilities of foreign nations, the agency’s deputy director said Thursday. Since its founding in 1947, the CIA has been the analytic hub of the U.S. intelligence community. Its officers parse through snippets of information collected by human spies and covert spy tools to craft holistic assessments of pressing issues for U.S. policymakers. Now, the agency is starting to lean on AI to make that work more rigorous — and quicker, CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis said Thursday during an event in Washington hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project, a nonprofit focused on tech and national security. Ellis revealed that the agency recently used AI to create its first-ever autonomous intelligence report, and projected that AI’s role in its analysis work will only grow.

Full report : The CIA says it recently used AI to create its first-ever autonomous intelligence report, and plans to build “AI co-workers” into all of its analytic platforms.