Everything Nand Mulchandani said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Mulchandani: CIA has deployed large language models for open-source intelligence
“We're public with the fact that we actually have LLMs in production at the agency. We have it in production in the open source team.”
Mulchandani: Deploying battle-ready AI in defense will take a long time
“So it's funny because like the excitement and hype about this technology versus us absorbing it and making it battle ready is a long, long distance. And so I don't, I'm hopefully, you know, portraying or representing that side of the equation, which it doesn't…”
Mulchandani: AI use in spy operations will continuously escalate
“The democratization of this stuff and the availability we know is going to drive each one of our competitors to be driving this up. We're going to be aware of that. We're going to drive our own stuff up. So there's this aspect of, we don't know where this is g…”
Mulchandani: AI tools risk amplifying intelligence analysts' cognitive biases
“Well, it can then also, unfortunately, take the things that you as an analyst are weakest at, or it's your weak knee or your thing that, that it can get into your head. And start rabbit-holing you down this thing, which amplifies your biases.”
Mulchandani: AI forces explicit decision-making around probabilistic output thresholds
“With these newer algorithms these are still probabilistic algorithms. Except now the probabilities actually stare you in the face in a way that previous systems didn't push, right? So previous application systems never came up with said, do you want the 49%, t…”
Mulchandani: CIA lacks the compute cycles to modify open-source AI weights
“Anybody's ability to do something with that, those, with that information is limited, because it's not just the numbers. You have to have the expertise you need to Compute. You need all the other pieces. That's my point, which is great. I have that information…”
Mulchandani: CIA pivoted focus from counter-terrorism to great power competition
“And the conclusion was actually fairly interesting and not a surprise, was that we had to pivot from CT, which had been the big sort of focus for the agency for a couple of decades, to great power competition.”
Mulchandani: Universities lack compute power to compete with tech giants
“When you go talk to universities right now, one point they make is they don't have the compute power to be able to rival Microsoft and OpenAI and these companies”
Mulchandani: Hardware commoditization will make running AI models cheap at scale
“The availability of, you know, hardware commoditization and other pieces will get to a point where we'll be able to run all kinds of interesting algorithms At scale with really cheap, readily available hardware, right?”
Mulchandani: CIA builds custom software because there is no spy app store
“There is no, as we point out inside many cases, there is no ready app store for spy software. So there are absolutely certain things that we need to build and write inside the agency.”
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