Amy B. Zegart
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“NSA has been penetrating foreign communications systems for over half a century. It has the highest concentration of the best cyber expertise in government, employing more mathematicians than any organization in the United States.154 As former NSA Director Michael Hayden wrote, cyber weapons descend from an NSA bloodline.”
― Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
― Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
“Perhaps the most serious objection is what Tetlock calls the “wrong-side-of-maybe fallacy,” the risk of being charged with “failure” when an event doesn’t happen even when the intelligence estimate claimed there was only a 70 percent chance that it would. When it comes to likelihood, we tend to conflate maybe with sure thing.87”
― Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
― Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
“Technological advances (like the Internet) used to start in government and then migrate to the commercial sector.52 Now that process is reversed, with breakthroughs coming from large companies like Google and Nvidia and from startups like Ginko Bioworks and Dataminr.”
― Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
― Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
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