Agent Running in the Age of AI
Brief
The intelligence community has always done things the same way: Identify a potential source (a target); make a recruitment (an agent); train, brief, and run the agent in place to collect intelligence of value to decision makers.
A great agent gives the decision maker insight into intent, and a reasoning and decision advantage over his or her adversaries. In some circumstances, this advantage shapes destiny. Control over destiny is commonly called sovereignty.
AI has rapidly made reasoning ubiquitous; a commodity accessible to all at ever-decreasing marginal cost. In the age of AI, advantage accrues to those who use reason most effectively, make good decisions most quickly, and take actions most confidently. And who will do the bulk of this reasoning, make these decisions, and take these actions? Agents.