Source-led reading note · AI and accountability · 2025
The Double Black Box
AI can make already-secret national-security decisions harder to scrutinise; this study examines the resulting accountability problem.
Ashley S. Deeks
Subject and context
Examines how artificial intelligence and secrecy interact in national security, and what democratic accountability can look like when both systems are difficult to inspect.
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Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy
This textbook connects intelligence collection and analysis with the policy decisions they inform.
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An institutional account of intelligence as a continuing function of government, in peace as well as war.
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A starting point for disciplined reasoning when information is incomplete, contested or intended to mislead.
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