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AI is enhancing intelligence collection and mission effectiveness—as well as enabling faster, more complex special operations. However, AI-powered deepfakes, disinformation, and influence campaigns are creating significant challenges for intelligence validation, decision-making, and national security.Learning Outcomes
- Explain how artificial intelligence enhances intelligence gathering, analysis, and operational effectiveness, including its role in enabling faster decision-making and complex military operations.
- Assess the risks posed by AI-enabled deception, including deepfakes, disinformation, synthetic identities, and foreign influence campaigns, and their impact on trust in information and intelligence.
- Evaluate the challenges of maintaining information integrity in an AI-driven security environment, including the need for data protection, intelligence validation, and resilience against adversarial AI attacks.
