Looks like DOGE isn’t alone—the robots are coming for the government jobs, too. Last week, generative AI company Danti announced that its intelligence gathering LLM would be deployed across the US federal government, allowing US analysts to view synthesized government-gathered data on a handy-dandy platform. Think of it as ChatGPT, but for intelligence.
“Think analysts at Space Force and NGA using AI to rapidly search and synthesize data from satellites, maritime and shipping beacons, news, social media around ports, and active wildfires in seconds… [now they can] do things only select few experts could do until recently,” Jesse Kallman, founder and CEO of Danti, told Tectonic over email.
Den of Spies: To date, intelligence gathering has been a clunky and often tedious process carried out by hordes of US government analysts around the world. Lots of the information needed to make quick decisions on mission has long been hidden behind walls of bureaucracy and permissions, or held by operators in some far-off place. With Danti, analysts can simply type a query into the AI chat bot and it will spit out an answer pulled from government sources.
Eye in the sky: In an example Danti shared with Tectonic, the (pretend) user asked the bot to tell it the “location of missile launch sites in North Korea.” The bot not only spat out a list of sites, but also government-collected satellite imagery of those sites, news stories related to North Korean nuclear launches, and an overview of why North Korea is a threat.
In another example, the user asked the Danti bot to tell it which ports the Chinese ship MV Zhe Hai 168 had docked in in recent weeks. The bot showed a map of the ship’s movements in recent weeks collected by AIS and a blurb about the vessel itself.
Seeing things: Danti has been working to develop the platform with the US Space Force and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). “Danti breaks down plain text questions into relevant and related components… [that] TacSRT leverages to deliver analytical reports to our Space Force Components at our Combatant Commands,” said Maj. Zach He, USSF TacSRT.
- Kallman told Tectonic that the risk of hallucination with Danti is low—the bot’s mandate is narrow and the company has put controls in place to verify the info it spits out.
- Danti provides source material that analysts can double-check. The system has been designed to work at a variety of different classification levels.
- Danti can also be modified using “nodes” to share information across agencies and classification levels.