http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/intelligence Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:40:05 -0400 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:40:05 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1017/artificial-composers-tools-of-the-modern-musician-or-affront-to-human-creativity By Jonathan P. Farrell - On August 13, 2014, Youtube user CGPGrey posted Humans Need Not Apply, an informative video detailing the trajectory of automated technology and its implications on the job market and human employment. After describing the superhuman superiority of automation in low-skill, white collar, and professional job markets, Grey (2014) addresses artistic specialists: “But perhaps you are unfazed because you’re a special creative snowflake. Well, guess what: you’re not that special” (11:15). He then proceeds to debunk the myth that creativity is exclusively human, and does so to... Sun, 22 Mar 2015 05:21 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1017/artificial-composers-tools-of-the-modern-musician-or-affront-to-human-creativity http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1196/the-case-of-edward-snowden-a-different-path By Jessica Blusiewicz - Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of respondents who believe Snowden harmed US security interests also believe he should be punished; however, public opinion on the whole has been divided along an almost even split as to whether Snowden should face such prosecution.4 Despite this split, the fact remains that he leaked classified information by circumventing the protected whistleblowing structure within the Intelligence Community (IC). Well aware of his contractual obligations, Snowden still decided to disclose evidence, in an unauthorized and very public way, indicting the NSA for overstepping... Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1196/the-case-of-edward-snowden-a-different-path http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1205/legal-dilemmas-in-the-digital-age By Connor D. Maag - In an age of information, one reasonable question to ask is whether Internet censorship and personal freedom can coexist under international law. In contrast to several other nations—even those sharing similar Western philosophy—the United States tends to support the freedoms of speech and press, even when they could pose a threat to national security. Today, this ideal has reached a height of conflict in the new era of technology. Government censorship, copyright infringement and classified document hijacking are now major points of contention over international approaches to cyberspace... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1205/legal-dilemmas-in-the-digital-age http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/340/cyborgs-and-robots-a-logically-ordered-existence By Jeremy S. Page - Ilene Serlin's statement does not simply establish an opposition between the 'logically ordered' state and the state of 'spirit and soul,’ but creates expectations of the latter. A society based on order and logic defends its citizens from the ‘darkness to be contained’ (145) which, for Serlin, seems to be an integral part of a natural (human) existence - the je ne sais quoi that separates humanity from hybridised 'Cyborg' creatures. This paper applies Serlin's analysis to the logic/spirit dichotomy portrayed in the Dr. Who episode Dalek and Beckett's young adult novel Genesis... Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:56 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/340/cyborgs-and-robots-a-logically-ordered-existence http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1254/the-public-spheres-private-intelligence By Peter Gruskin - With attacks abounding in the various theatres of war abroad and even domestically, the U.S. government needed a backup security force as well as support for high-technology products that only the private sector could provide. Many private citizens, some of whom had left the intelligence community years before, were already “cleared,” and the political incentives were already in place to increase funding for non-governmental assistance to classified work. It was an opportunity to broaden the abilities of various agencies—technical and human in their needs—to make American... Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1254/the-public-spheres-private-intelligence http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/294/the-mind-in-the-brain-the-brain-in-a-robot-strong-ai-in-an-artificial-neural-network-brain-replica-housed-in-an-autonomous-sensory-endowed-robot By Ryan A. Piccirillo - In his paper Minds, Brains, and Programs, Searle distinguishes between what he calls “strong AI” and “weak or cautious AI.” Weak AI is powerful enough to formulate and test hypotheses about the mind in a precise manner, but cannot be said to be a mind or consciousness in itself. It is in this incapability that Searle makes the distinction between weak AI and strong AI. “According to strong AI,” posits Searle, “the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind, in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand... Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/294/the-mind-in-the-brain-the-brain-in-a-robot-strong-ai-in-an-artificial-neural-network-brain-replica-housed-in-an-autonomous-sensory-endowed-robot http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/43/future-hell-nuclear-fiction-in-pursuit-of-history By Trevor J. Doherty - What is a cyclical history? Why does humanity seem doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again? Are we doomed to this machine called fate? What is a soul, and how do I express it? Predicting what futures may lay ahead for humanity if we continue on some popular cultural paths, a body of twentieth century authors has created literary experiments designed to test the limits of human imagination. Nuclear warfare, artificial intelligence, inter-galactic travel, and the nature of spirituality itself all come woven together in the texts, which are profoundly affected by enlightened science... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:26 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/43/future-hell-nuclear-fiction-in-pursuit-of-history http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1145/are-intelligence-failures-inevitable By William Thomas - The “Great Game”, as Rudyard Kipling famously referred to the art of Intelligence, is a “game” that comes with a large slice one of chance, and just like any other game there is as much chance of losing as there is of winning. As Shulsky illuminates above there is a cast iron guarantee that with the pursuit of intelligence there comes intelligence failure. This work will examine why this is so, drawing on the examples of failure as regards to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This case shows a range of failures at different levels of the intelligence process... Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1145/are-intelligence-failures-inevitable http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1167/western-intelligence--nothing-more-than-a-cold-war-relic By John Devlin - The termination of the Cold War has meant dramatic changes for the Western intelligence services. The intensity of the infamous espionage conflict of the Cold War between the liberal-democratic West and the communist East is over. The Committee for State Security (KGB), like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), has been abolished. The somewhat reassuring rigidity of the Cold War has been replaced by a mixture of old and new threats. Intelligence is still required. The only certain feature in the post-Cold War world is that the Western intelligence services will have to perform... Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1167/western-intelligence--nothing-more-than-a-cold-war-relic