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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Frank Bajak

US intelligence agencies' embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Long before generative AI's boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect and analyze non-classified data on illicit Chinese fentanyl trafficking made a compelling case for its embrace by U.S. intelligence agencies.

The operation's results far exceeded human-only analysis, finding twice as many companies and 400% more people engaged in illegal or suspicious commerce in the deadly opioid.

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