John F. Kennedy reportedly privately lobbied for the CIA to be “splintered into a thousand pieces and scattered it to the winds” following the April 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle.
Two and a half years later, he got shot in the head by a magic bullet in front of the world, and his apparent desire to see the agency scattered never materialized.
Fast forward about fifty years, and you have Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), hosted by cable news’ top lesbian, Rachel Maddow, proclaiming in front of the world in the context of Donald Trump pushing back on the #Russiagate conspiracy theory: “Let me tell ya, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.”
This toe-curling assessment from a sitting member of the Senate, in this, Our Sacred Democracy™, elicited no follow-up from the “journalist” seated across from him who markets herself as a staunch defender of said Democracy™.
Then Trump came within a millimeter of getting his own head blown off under extremely suspicious circumstances.You can put those puzzle pieces together however you like.
Anyway, far from being scattered into oblivion as JFK recommended it be over a half-century ago before he got his head blown off by a magic bullet, the CIA is arguably more powerful than it’s ever been post-9/11, equipped with the latest toys to do whatever it does in the name of national security with no meaningful oversight or accountability by members of the legislative or judicial branches, who, as Chuck was kind enough to explain on national television, are terrified of challenging the agency for fear of retaliation — as the Founders intended, obviously.
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One of those fancy new tools that the American taxpayer has financed via debt is an AI chatbot that impersonates foreign dignitaries, which apparently the CIA needed very much to do its crucial work overthrowing regimes overseas and turning formerly functional states into failed ones that may or may not be used as money laundering hubs and bioweapons development sites for shady interests affiliated with the agency, directed by menopausal bureaucrats from Washington.
For Democracy™.
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Via The New York Times (emphasis added):
Over the last two years, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed a tool that allows analysts to talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers, who answer back.
“It is a fantastic example of an app that we were able to rapidly deploy and get out to production in a cheaper, faster fashion,” said Nand Mulchandani, the C.I.A.’s chief technology officer.
The chatbot is part of the spy agency’s drive to improve the tools available to C.I.A. analysts and its officers in the field, and to better understand adversaries’ technical advances. Core to the effort is to make it easier for companies to work with the most secretive agency…
The C.I.A. has long used digital tools, spy gadgets and even artificial intelligence. But with the development of new forms of A.I., including the large language models that power chat bots, the agency has stepped up its investments.
Making better use of A.I., Mr. Burns said, is crucial to the U.S. competition with China. And better A.I. models have helped the agency’s analysts “digest the avalanche of open-source information out there,” he said.
No mention of the cost involved or how the agency plans to weaponize its new AI chatbot against domestic political dissidents. But whatever the cost in terms of finances or civil liberties, surely it’s worth every penny.
