Will AI Replace Intelligence Analysts?

Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Gather, analyze, correlate, or evaluate information from a variety of resources, such as law enforcement databases.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Evaluate records of communications, such as telephone calls, to plot activity and determine the size and location of criminal groups and members.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Gather intelligence information by field observation, confidential information sources, or public records.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Analyze intelligence data to identify patterns and trends in criminal activity.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Prepare comprehensive written reports, presentations, maps, or charts, based on research, collection, and analysis of intelligence data.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Collaborate with representatives from other government and intelligence organizations to share information or coordinate intelligence activities.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Link or chart suspects to criminal organizations or events to determine activities and interrelationships.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Establish criminal profiles to aid in connecting criminal organizations with their members.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Identify gaps in information.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Design, use, or maintain databases and software applications, such as geographic information systems (GIS) mapping and artificial intelligence tools.

Software coding, programming, or application development task highly susceptible to automated generation.

Predict future gang, organized crime, or terrorist activity, using analyses of intelligence data.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Study activities relating to narcotics, money laundering, gangs, auto theft rings, terrorism, or other national security threats.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Study the assets of criminal suspects to determine the flow of money from or to targeted groups.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Conduct presentations of analytic findings.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Develop defense plans or tactics, using intelligence and other information.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Interview, interrogate, or interact with witnesses or crime suspects to collect human intelligence.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Prepare plans to intercept foreign communications transmissions.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Study communication code languages or foreign languages to translate intelligence.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Gather and evaluate information, using tools such as aerial photographs, radar equipment, or sensitive radio equipment.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Operate cameras, radios, or other surveillance equipment to intercept communications or document activities.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.