Israel Seeks Super-Forecasting Help on Where World Is Heading
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The way people communicate, how they fight wars, how they work and even how long they live are poised to be radically different in a few decades time. Israel is looking for technologies to help it prepare.
The country is scouting artificial intelligence startups around the world to build a so-called “horizon scanning” platform to detect emerging global trends in their earliest stages, Intelligence Ministry Director General Chagai Tzuriel said in an interview in Jerusalem. Tzuriel’s office is already collaborating with the Ministry of Defense on building such capabilities, though he expects that will take a “long time” to develop.