Nashville Security Summit 2026

As intelligence professionals develop a 'trust but verify' approach to the increasing pressure to  integrates generative and agentic AI, the tension between rapid capability adoption and rigorous oversight has reached a critical inflection point. This panel explores the standards and internal governance frameworks necessary to maintain the "decision advantage" without compromising analytic integrity or operational security.

The panel features four distinct perspectives:
The Regulatory Lens: Identifying gaps and opportunities in government and industry standards for AI in intelligence operations.
The Ethical Architecture: Exploring how to conform to existing guidelines and anticipate new challenges.
The Analytic Standard: Adapting existing standards and integrating new policies to ensure analytic integrity.
The Leadership Mandate: Building a culture of "AI Literacy" that empowers intelligence professionals to act as human-in-the-loop safeguards.