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Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: A Conversation with Amy Zegart

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In a rapidly-evolving international security landscape with new technologies available to a variety of threat actors, the United States is, in the words of intelligence scholar and expert Dr. Amy Zegart, "losing its intelligence advantage." Join the Intelligence and Applied History Projects for a conversation with Dr. Zegart on her newest book, Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. The discussion will be moderated by Calder Walton, Associate Director for Research at the Intelligence Project and Assistant Director at the Applied History Project. This virtual event is open to the public. Registration is required. To join via Zoom, please register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HD9Jk2p8S2atQkgTENWYoA.

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Spies, Lies, and Algorithms

About the Book

In Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence, Dr. Zegart draws on hundreds of interviews with current and former intelligence officials to examine topics such as how technology is reshaping the U.S. intelligence community, and how the rise of "spytainment", along with gaps in intelligence education at the university level, are fueling conspiracy theories and misperceptions of intelligence. The book, published this year by Princeton University Press, traces the history of congressional oversight of intelligence and examines prospects for the future, as well as examining how threat actors are engaging with cyberspace, and the challenges this poses for the intelligence community.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Amy B. Zegart is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of political science, past co-director of Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Affairs. She has previously served as a national security analyst for CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and National Public Radio. In September 2021, The Atlantic published two pieces by Dr. Zegart on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

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