Tag Archives: intelligence

AI labels photographs (Rousse)

We were excited to see that the AI had managed to label the photograph of our group. Rather than actual names, however, under the image of each person were a couple of words to represent their character. I thought it … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Secret Traitors plant is the Orinoco kid (Rousse)

The Traitors’ production team planted me amongst the players at the start of episode 1. My role was to drop conversational prompts into discussions to generate entertaining dialogue for the television footage. As I completed my mission, I wondered at … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Alan Turing back from the dead? (Rousse)

EH was convinced that her husband had met Alan Turing at the 2023 AI safety summit at Bletchley Park. I wasn’t so sure, not least because Turing had been dead for almost 70 years.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Prince Harry and high heels (Rousse)

I travelled to locked down London for training as a new member of the British Secret Service. England’s capital city looked, and sounded, very quiet. I could even hear bird song through the closed top deck bus windows. Soon I … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

‘Intelligence calipers’ measure IQs of aspiring spooks (Rousse)

The job advert had read ‘civil servant’ but I knew that the panel members opposite me were assessing my suitability for a role that included subterfuge, espionage, honeypots, and data decryption. I played along answering the standard interview questions with … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment