From alerts to analysis: the importance of an Intelligence Center where AI accelerates but the analyst projects

Abstract

Among the challenges faced by strategic intelligence is the overabundance of data and how to transform it into useful knowledge for decision-making. In this framework, the Intelligence Center emerges as a living platform, integrating open and closed sources, with the ability to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to generate multi-dynamic intelligence products. Alerts constitute an important step in warning intelligence system users about different threats; however, the article does not seek to undermine these signals, but rather to emphasize the importance of analysis. In this sense, it outlines the guideline for filtering noise and directing the user, reducing uncertainty, and anticipating scenarios. AI provides speed, power, and process optimization, among other advantages, but it does not replace the analyst; instead, it complements their role in interpreting and projecting the operational environment. Along these lines, the article concludes that the foundation of every analyst is integrity, fostering awareness of improvements achieved, and emphasizing that top-level capabilities must be applied in the best possible way.