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Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Israeli Intelligence Collection
(National Interest) Lt.-Col. (res.) David Siman-Tov - According to the commander of Unit 8200, the cyber unit of IDF military intelligence, at least for the foreseeable future, machines will not replace humans' role in intelligence decision-making. However, new technologies are changing the intelligence profession. In recent years, we have seen unprecedented advancements in automatic translation technology offering a highly accurate level of translation. The translation of languages - such as Arabic and Persian - into Hebrew allows intelligence analysts to have direct contact with raw material. Another technology focuses on identifying targets for attack, cross-linking many layers of geographic information to reveal anomalies in the data. In its May 2021 operation in Gaza, Israeli military intelligence used artificial intelligence to identify many real-time terror targets. The writer is a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies and deputy head of the Institute for the Research of the Methodology of Intelligence at the Israeli Intelligence Community Commemoration and Heritage Center.