The speaker, whose face is not shown, introduces himself only as “Colonel Yoav,” the head of data science and AI for Unit 8200, an elite outfit within Israel’s intelligence directorate. In the early 2000s he was an enthusiastic member of “the Choir,” a group of spies who advocated for Israeli intelligence to embrace Silicon Valley’s machine learning tech. At first, Israeli intelligence units didn’t have the capacity to sift through the data piling up on military servers. In its vision, a “merger of human intelligence and artificial intelligence” renders security agencies capable of predicting any potential threat. For Israeli intelligence units, obtaining bigger data sets meant even more dramatically expanding surveillance of the Palestinian territories.