Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez, Faculty, Naval Postgraduate School, explores generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek and highlights their rapid adoption and dual-edged implications. Discover how these technologies enhance sectors like border security and business while posing new challenges as criminal entities exploit their agility akin to OODA loop decision-making cycles. Learn about DeepSeek’s cost-effective open-source model’s impact on AI market dynamics and international power competition, as well as AI-led criminal innovations like voice-cloning and intelligence countermeasures. The presenter underscores the transformative impact of AI on both legal and illicit operations, urging forward-thinking strategies to mitigate risks while harnessing AI’s potential in a rapidly evolving landscape.
About the Speaker
Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez is a geostrategist and defense futurist focused on the consequences of the accelerating pace of change in homeland security and policing environments. He is a research professor at the National Security Affairs Department and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and has also worked as a certified facilitator and instructor for the Command College for the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and a former instructor at the Executive Academy of the Emergency Management Institute. He is also a faculty member of Singularity University.
