How to Be a Good Intelligence Analyst
Statecraft
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Knowledge Graphs as Presence for Ethnography
- Rob Johnston suggests using technology to shadow analysts and create digital twins, addressing the challenge of articulating expertise in intelligence work.
- As an anthropologist, Johnston notes that traditional ethnography, while valuable, lacks the coverage a digital shadow could provide.
- He envisions an algorithm tuned to understand an analyst's thinking, allowing others to tap into their decision criteria even when they are not present.
- Johnston emphasizes the potential of knowledge graphs, agentic AI, and large language models to impact knowledge work by creating digital shadows.
and i think this has applications for how people interact with the information collaboratively as well - directionally placing knowledge for the task of scaling that organization through emulation of that cluster. the restructuring renames what people understood to be the boundaries. this changes the work of analysis - scaling how one finds relevant groupings
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