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School of War

The AI Arms Race: Can Our Intel Community Keep Up? With Anthony Vinci

School of War · Jun 5, 2026 · 56:05

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Anthony Vinci—co-founder and CEO of Vico, an AI company that empowers judgment and analysis in finance and national security, and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution—joins School of War to discuss the technological evolution of spycraft. How does an intelligence officer operate in a world of rapidly advancing technology? What happens when machines begin to assist, or even replace, human judgment? And are we being spied on constantly?

02:33 - The Job of an Intelligence Officer

03:43 - Technology and Intelligence Work

05:58 - Living Under Surveillance

07:43 - AI as an Intelligence Analyst

09:37 - The Origins of American Intelligence

10:15 - Who Was Wild Bill Donovan?

12:37 - The Modern Intelligence Community

14:25 - The Evolution of Spy Technology

16:39 - The Intelligence Gap Before 9/11

18:58 - A Mossad Chief's Critique

23:10 - The Fourth Intelligence Revolution

25:02 - AI and Autonomy

27:49 - Are We All Being Spied On?

30:05 - China's Political Warfare

34:00 - The COVID Intelligence Failure

39:59 - The Dangers of AI Language Models

48:37 - TikTok and Surveillance

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