Welcome to the second installment of SCSP Wrapped. In this special end-of-year review, the SCSP team—hosted by Senior Advisor for Intelligence William Usher—sat down to discuss the “Algorithmic Edge.” From the changing character of warfare to the integration of AI in the Intelligence Community (IC), the conversation covered the geostrategic trends driving our adoption of emerging technologies.
Your December prediction that AI companions would emerge as a counterintelligence threat vector has aged faster than anyone anticipated.
By November 2025, two of the top ten AI apps in the Apple App Store already had documented ties to Chinese state-adjacent companies — engineered with precisely the inquisitive, sympathetic, always-available profile your team identified as the threat signature.
What your Wrapped framing correctly established as a 2026 risk is already an operational present-tense reality, not a forecast. The governance gap you identify between adversarial AI deployment and democratic oversight frameworks is the exact fault line I’ve been mapping from the HUMINT doctrine perspective — the capability is deployed, the binding accountability structures are not yet written.
I invite you to write a deep analysis on this if you’re interested.
Your December prediction that AI companions would emerge as a counterintelligence threat vector has aged faster than anyone anticipated.
By November 2025, two of the top ten AI apps in the Apple App Store already had documented ties to Chinese state-adjacent companies — engineered with precisely the inquisitive, sympathetic, always-available profile your team identified as the threat signature.
What your Wrapped framing correctly established as a 2026 risk is already an operational present-tense reality, not a forecast. The governance gap you identify between adversarial AI deployment and democratic oversight frameworks is the exact fault line I’ve been mapping from the HUMINT doctrine perspective — the capability is deployed, the binding accountability structures are not yet written.
I invite you to write a deep analysis on this if you’re interested.