SAA has released its new report on the world of intelligence, technology and human decision making. Read it here.

The intelligence challenges of the last decade haven’t gone away. But the world has become faster, more digital, more personalised and less predictable – and core assumptions that previously underpinned Australia’s (and other nations’) intelligence community are dangerously outdated.  They need to be challenged and changed.

A 13 part tasting menu of its contents:

1. The Bottom Line                                     
2. The intelligence problems of the last decade are still with us                                 
3. The new intelligence problem: who is actually shaping the world?                        
4. Power is becoming concentrated in a tiny number of people                                 
5. Australia’s assumptions about America need to change                                         
6. 5 Eyes still matters, but institutional relationships are no longer enough               
7. China presents a different but equally difficult challenge                                       
8. Human intelligence is back in style                                                                        
9. Australia’s national attack surface is too large for government alone                      
10. Australia needs to ask harder questions                                                                 
11. AI creates a new secrecy problem                                                                          
12. Intelligence agencies need to challenge their own assumptions                              
13. The intelligence community needs to be more imaginative than those it advises.    

Our world is jarring, uncomfortable and uncertain.  That makes imagination, independence and the willingness to challenge assumptions more important than ever. And once that is done, it requires a willingness to act upon the answers. A PDF version is available here.