AI, JFK and AWS - Tulsi Gabbard, US Director of National Intelligence, on bringing tech into service

The relationship between the tech sector and the intelligence community has also been there. Remember, Oracle’s first client was the CIA! It’s not always been an entirely comfortable relationship, of course, as the privacy concerns and scandals of recent years have made clear.

Those are all the more pertinent perhaps as the AI age enters the mainstream, so I was interested to hear what Tulsi Gabbard, the US Director of National Intelligence, had to say on the topic as she took to the stage as guest of honor at Amazon Web Services DC Summit this week. On the basic idea of the use of tech to support intelligence gathering, she stated:

The primary focus of mine has been for not only the ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) as an organization, but across the intelligence community, is making sure that we are solely focused on what ...