Americans for Intelligence Reform

Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

CHINA’S AI: QUANDRY OR OPPORTUNITY?  

“By some metrics, China now produces more high-quality research papers in the [AI] field than the U.S. but still lags behind in ‘paradigm-shifting breakthroughs’ … In generative AI, the latest wave of top-tier AI systems, China remains one to two years behind U.S. development and reliant on U.S. innovations, China tech watchers and industry leaders […]

                                  CRAZY DAVE 

“I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.”                                                                                       Paloma Faith “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”                                                                              Friedrich Nietzsche While Ima and I made a brief visit to Bartlesville, Oklahoma earlier this month (June 2023)—looking in on KaLeigh’s cobalt refinery project—my good friend from my Texas Christian University […]