Former US SOF SIGINT Operator on the Upcoming Grey Dynamics OSINT Course

About this episode

Gabe Fanelli discusses the new OSINT Operator Course and the implications of AI in intelligence operations.

Gabe Fanelli is back. Our Director of Training, 14 years active duty Army, Bronze Star recipient, SIGINT operator from West Africa to Syria, walks us through the new OSINT Operator Course, module by module. This one is different. It is not a tools course. Tools go down. This is about building the analytical brain behind the tools: critical thinking, bias recognition, geo and chronological verification, the dark web, ad tech surveillance, corporate intelligence, and the ethics that hold all of it together. We also went somewhere most podcasts will not go. AI in the kill chain. 900 strikes in 12 hours. The targeting deck for that girls’ school in Tehran. Palantir’s Maven Smart system. I wrote my dissertation on LLMs in the kill chain eight years ago, and the fact that the human is being removed further and further from the loop is not a future problem: it is a right now problem. Gabe and I got into it on ad tech too. Your data broker probably knows your BMI. That should scare you. The OSINT Operator Course is launching soon with a presale discount. If you work in intelligence, law enforcement, corporate security, compliance, or you just want to understand what is actually possible…

People in this episode

Host: Grey Dynamics

Guest: Gabe Fanelli

Topics covered

• OSINT
• intelligence
• critical thinking
• AI ethics
• data surveillance

Keywords

• OSINT
• SIGINT
• AI
• data privacy
• intelligence training
• critical thinking
• ad tech

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Grey Dynamics, Palantir

Products: Maven Smart system

Places: West Africa, Syria, Tehran

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