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Russian authorities. On Sept. 23, 2013, Mr. Kucherena gave a long interview to Sophie Shevardnadze, a journalist for Russia Today television. When Ms. Shevardnadze directly asked him if Mr. Snowden had given all the documents he had taken from the NSA to journalists in Hong Kong...

… NSA through a temporary job with an outside contractor that had a contract with the NSA’s Technology Directorate to repair and update it back-up system. Four years later, by maneuvering to get hired by another outside contractor with access to the NSA’s sources and methods, he w...

…the federal Centers U.S. Attomey’s Office. Bernice Kraftcheck and her daughter, Danielle Haese, were hoisted into the air for the parasail fide as wind conditions were deteriorating. “The strong winds and a weak tow-line caused the tow-line to break, resulting in the parasail...

assistance swelled in FY 2013, the Office’s fourth year. OGIS opened 508 cases, a 40-percent increase from FY 2012 when OGIS opened 361 cases. OGIS also handled more than 230 inquiries—telephone calls and emails yielding quick responses that did not require cases be opened—in FY...

12.9 AGI Ethics As Related to Various Future Scenarios 235 approach does not necessarily need to be augmented with a prior complex of “ascent-safe” moral imperatives at startup time. Developing an AGI with theory of mind and ethical reinforcement learning capabilities as describ...

158 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS The CIA also had its share of long-term successes, such as Alex- ander Poteyev, who fed the CIA secrets for over ten years while burrowing into Russian intelligence. In the choreography of these operations, as in Le Carré’s fiction, rival intel...

Mind over Computer 29 In the vast, inhospitable Outback it is vitally important you remember that water can be found at the two rocks near the old gnarled tree. Forget this and you will die of thirst. It was once thought the skill evolved through natural selection, but this migh...

136 7 A Formal Model of Intelligent Agents weight to a situation S based on the ease with which one agent in a society can communicate S to another agent in that society, using multimodal communication (including verbalization, demonstration, dramatic and pictorial depiction, et...

…at help structure intelligence are diverse and span multiple levels of abstraction. Most of this chapter will focus on fairly concrete patterns of this nature, such as are involved in inter-agent communication and naive physics; however, it’s also worth noting the potential impor...

… For instance, suppose one has e asimplicity measure that (like the ECP) is approximately decomposable into a set of fairly distinct components, plus their interactions ® an assumption similar to NKC, which states that the entities displaying simplicity according to each of th...

24 2 What Is Human-Like General Intelligence? it, we will go through some more background regarding human-like intelligence (in the rest of this chapter), philosophy of mind (in Chapter 3) and contemporary AGI architectures (in Chapter4). 2.3 Further Characterizations of Humanl...

151 demonstrated the NSA had few, if any, fail-safe defenses against a would-be leakers of communication intelligence. In the new domain of cyber warfare, conventional defensive rules do not apply. “There are no rivers or hills up here. It’s all flat. All advantage goes to the a...

…gencies and security regime, the ability of Putin to use covert means to achieve his other global ambitions would be impaired. In the Cold Peace that replaced the Cold War, Russia had little hope of realizing these ambitions unless it could weaken the NSA’s iron-tight grip on glo...

…s case, the pawn, which had it in his power to expose the NSA’s critical sources and methods, would also be considered fair game for capture by an adversary. And both the Chinese and Russian cyber services, whether working alone or together, had the technological means in China t...

217 CHAPTER TWENTY NINE The Whistle Blower Who Became a Controlled Source “The [U.S.] government’s investigation failed—that they don’t know what was taken” —Edward Snowden in Moscow In Moscow I had learned that Russian intelligence services use the broad, umbrella term “esp...