Release time：2025-09-12
Maybe one day, Bond with a gun will really be our memory, existing only in the movies. The fake identities that 007s rely on are being recognized by the high-tech secret weapons they once prided themselves on. Their quick reaction ability and strong psychological quality are also doomed to be no match for the rapidly growing AI discernment.
Now the C.I.A.'s main adversary is not foreign agents, it's machines, Dawn Meyerriecks, the agency's deputy director of technology development, lamented at a recent intelligence conference in Florida.
The Identity Dilemma of Agents in the Digital Age
Today's spies have the same important task as yesterday: they need to be invisible. But the difference is that identifying their adversaries has gone from human to AI.
Computer identification is becoming widespread, but it can be used to identify anyone as well as criminals. In the current era of digital identity tracking and social media, it is difficult for C.I.A. agents to disguise their identities for missions. This era is abandoning the meticulous work of the past.
Agents no longer need to use fake documents and lies to get away with it, but need to think about how to fool the AI that is the ultimate thief.
According to Meyerriecks, at least 30 countries are capable of accurately identifying suspicious individuals in current CCTV camera systems, which means that counterintelligence tools have the upper hand in the global intelligence community's international game of hide-and-seek.
With the development of satellite tracking and geospatial intelligence, the truth is that human spies are likely to be unable to counter the next generation of AI.
Indeed, it is so easy for AI to identify a person's true identity.
Big Data Digest previously reported that computer vision identified a head frozen for five years. Recently, another criminal was caught at Jacky Cheung's concert.
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