Amy Zegart: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms - The History and Future of American Intelligence.

How do U.S. intelligence agencies figure out Russia’s threats to Ukraine? Why have U.S. drone attacks on terrorist groups killed so many civilians? Stanford professor Amy Zegart looks at the challenges in her new book, Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. In this Town Hall Seattle interview, she explains how our misconceptions about spies, fed by popular culture, have led to a misunderstanding of these grave threats.

Zegart is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her books include Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 (2009) and, with former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity (2018).