THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE AND THE CHALLENGES TO THE MODERNIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE.

In recent years, intelligence activity has undergone several transformations associated with the dilemmas of complex threats and international security and the emergence of new tools and technologies for data analysis, information, and knowledge construction. With software, artificial intelligence, and sophisticated computational social science methodologies, intelligence studies have gained new performance and reached undergraduate and postgraduate courses as an academic discipline. However, other challenges have emerged, such as the intense flow of information and fake news, which hinder the analytical process of building intelligence. The need to filter, collect, and analyze data quickly, accurately, and truthfully has become a significant problem for the intelligence area, which needs to adapt to new actors, threats, and interference that arise for intelligence and national security. This policy brief aims to take a reflective approach to the professionalization of intelligence and the need for the academic field of studies to adapt to the complex challenges of national and international security.