Dr. Amy Zegart - "The past, present, and future of tech in American espionage"

Wednesdays with SSP

In this episode, Dr. Amy Zegart examines the past, present, and future of American espionage, focusing on how emerging technologies are radically challenging every aspect of the intelligence enterprise. In this talk, Zegart also shares her findings about nuclear threat detection. Thanks to Internet connectivity, automated analytics like machine learning, and the proliferation of commercial satellites, nuclear intelligence isn't just for superpower governments anymore. A vibrant emerging ecosystem of nongovernmental individuals and organizations is using open-source intelligence to track illicit nuclear activities. Dr. Amy Zegart is the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. She is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Chair of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence and International Security Steering Committee, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. She received an A.B. in East Asian studies magna cum laude from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nKvZEAqOQ0nCd-4ch3GhhwtusyUklhOo/view?usp=sharing