Trump's spy agencies say AI vendors will sell them needle-detection tools for infinite haystacks
by Cory Doctorow from on (#31TK6)
When the 9/11 commission reported back on the intelligence failures that led to the attacks 16 years ago, they identified a key problem: America's spy agencies had collected so much useless, indiscriminate information (haystacks) that they couldn't find the useful, salient facts (needles) buried there. (more")