The war in Ukraine was the beginning, and the Iranian attack on Israel by a swarm of over 200 drones and ballistic missiles is now the tail end of an elongated inflection point - propelling …
Perspectives on AI Hallucinations: Code Libraries and Developer Ecosystems
Our hypothesis on AI Hallucinations is based on a quote from the OODAcon 2024 panel, "The Next Generative AI Surprise: “Artificial Intelligence hallucinations may sometimes provide an output that is a …
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What Can Your Organization Learn from the Use Cases of Large Language Models in Medicine and Healthcare?
It has become conventional wisdom that biotech and healthcare are the pace cars in implementing AI use cases with innovative business models and value-creation mechanisms. Other industry sectors …
Quantum Day (aka “Q-Day”) is a Gray Rhino Stridently Galloping Straight at Your Organization
"Q-Day" is a scenario where "no more secrets" becomes a reality, as previously secure communications and data could be vulnerable to decryption by entities wielding quantum computational power (also …
Spatial AI is the Future of Human-Computer Interaction and the Metaverse
Regular readers of the OODA Loop know that we cover exponential technologies daily and expect disproportionate disruption when these technologies start to converge. In this post, we explore AI + an …
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After His Presidential Re-election Victory, Putin Escalates Drone, Cyber and Disinformation Offensives
With Vladamir Putin's "landslide" victory in the Russian Presidential election in the rearview mirror (the victory extends Putin's autocratic rule through 2030, which will be his 18th year as …
Widespread European Farmer Protests, Some Violent, are Another Dispatch from The Ministry for the Future
In this, the fifth installment in our "Dispatches from the Ministry for the Future" series, we take the time to do more of a deep dive into the speculative fiction/science fiction novel that inspired …
A 4X Increase in Disinformation in Africa is Fundamentally Destabilizing
A new report from the Africa Center for Strategic Studies found that "disinformation campaigns seeking to manipulate African information systems have surged nearly fourfold since 2022, triggering …
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Undersea Communications Cables and the Seabed Continue to Evolve as Threat Vectors and Contested Arenas
Back in March 2023, we provided an analysis of "Undersea Telecommunications Cables and the Seabed as Geopolitical Contested Arenas" which, at the time, we framed relative to a great power competition …
Swarm Intelligence and Network Swarms: Future Scenarios
The concept of network swarms, particularly in the context of modern conflict and security, represents a fascinating and somewhat disorientating evolution in the dynamics of warfare and strategic …
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