Satellite based AI

NRO/GEOINT

Blacksky

Sentient

Ground based AI

XKEYSCORE

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/creepy-kitschy-and-geeky-patches-us-spy-satellites-180953562/

Makes me wonder if the seven dwarves were the ground based equivalent of Sentient and instead of focusing on pixels of ground sat imagery, they were focused on keywords and social media interactions. Siphoning up every data drop on everyone and compiling the data into a minority report style system. Predicting the future and most likely to happen in real time.

spoopy. It’s been debated here in the past. I think that this can make a logical argument for the veracity of the argument.

sauce as follows:

https://spacenews.com/nro-planning-shift-to-smaller-satellites-new-ground-system/

https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-our-crowded-skies

https://futurism.com/the-byte/military-artificial-brain-sentient

https://breakingdefense.com/2016/05/nro-tests-new-automatic-systems-that-analyze-data-move-satellites/

Archived the original site as they up front admit they track your IP address via google cookies.

http://archive.is/AFCOP

Why is that worrisome? Why does that tie into my argument about the seven dwarves? Check out what the NRO admitted in this verge article:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/31/20746926/sentient-national-reconnaissance-office-spy-satellites-artificial-intelligence-ai

Consider what’s happening in the private sector: BlackSky takes data from 25 satellites, more than 40,000 news sources, 100 million mobile devices, 70,000 ships and planes, eight social networks, 5,000 environmental sensors, and thousands of Internet-of-Things devices. In the future, it plans to have up to 60 of its own Earth-observing satellites. All of that information goes into different processing pipelines based on its type. From a news story, BlackSky may extract people, places, organizations, and keywords. From an image, it may map out which buildings appear damaged after an earthquake. All of that processed, but still disparate, data goes into what BlackSky CTO Scott Herman calls a “giant analytic fusion engine,” which tries to turn it into more than the sum of its parts, tells satellites what to do about it, and alerts human analysts when events meet certain predetermined criteria.

Is blacksky Qs blackeye?