The Declassification Engine

By Matthew Connelly,

Book cover of The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE • Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit?

“A brilliant, deeply unsettling look at the history and inner workings of ‘the dark state'.... At a time…

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1 author picked The Declassification Engine as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is a good reminder for me that there are always two powerful impulses that motivate humanity whenever a new technology is developed.

The first impulse is to use new tech to gain power, money, influence, or just harm others for the sake of it. The second impulse is to employ that new technology to benefit people and hopefully make the world a better place.

The Declassification Engine is a book that belongs to that second impulse. Throughout, the author demonstrates how AI and machine learning can be used to help sort, categorize, and generally illuminate more about top-secret…

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