Introduction
As the US Intelligence Community continues to adapt to emerging threats and rapid technological change, human-AI collaboration is becoming a critical enabler of mission success. To meet this need, CIA’s Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) Futures team and In-Q-Tel (IQT) have collaborated on a research project to explore how humans and conversational AI can work together more effectively and, ideally, achieve outcomes neither could accomplish alone.
This project leverages Snow Globe, a multi-player AI system built by IQT’s Applied Research Team, that uses large language models (LLMs) to play open-ended war games. Through a series of jointly designed games in which human participants play alongside (or against) simulated personas, the team has demonstrated how AI war games can serve as a testbed for human-AI teaming in intelligence work.