CIA’s chatbot stands in for world leaders


The CIA logo in the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Over the last two years, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed a tool that allows analysts to talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers, who answer back. — ©2025 The New York Times

Understanding leaders around the world is one of the CIA’s most important jobs. Teams of analysts comb through intelligence collected by spies and publicly available information to create profiles of leaders that can predict behaviours.

A chatbot powered by artificial intelligence now helps do that work.

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