> “We were captured by the generative AI zeitgeist just like the entire world was a couple of years back,” Lakshmi Raman, the CIA’s director of Artificial Intel

> “We were captured by the generative AI zeitgeist just like the entire world was a couple of years back,” Lakshmi Raman, the CIA’s director of Artificial Intelligence Innovation The intelligence agency was.. "capture" by "zeitgeist." That's an exceptionally unsettling view into their internal marketing process. > “We also acknowledge that there’s an immense amount of technical potential that we still have to kind of get our arms around, making sure that we’re looking past the hype and understanding what’s happening, and how we can bring this into our networks,” I love how when AI is applied to any other field of labor, people immediately imaging shrinking the labor pool as a result, yet, amazingly, that does not apply to the CIA. The rest of the article is a fanciful story for the tax payers to convince them that because of AI, the CIA somehow needs _more_ resources and people, and cloud computing providers are well justified in building "air gapped" AI solutions. Disappointing on several levels.