A US intelligence office has been quietly working on a highly secretive contrived intelligence ( AI ) spy orbiter system – like an all - seeing stilted Einstein in the sky – with a name that could be the handiwork of a naughtily write Bond villain .

The Vergefiled an FOIA asking to the National Reconnaissance Office ( NRO ) last year asking for more information about the occult labor named “ Sentient ” and managed to get their deal ona bucket load of documentsabout the once - closemouthed program .

Although sparse with facts , the documents reveal how the NRO has been develop an AI organization that could be capable of convey together immense wrapping of entropy with planet data to learn about everything from multitude and population to war zone and enemy airfields . Hypothetically , the AI could mix satellite imagery with all kinds of information decimal point , whether it ’s news sources , environmental sensor , or information from social culture medium to gain literal - time penetration into the earthly concern below .

" The Sentient Initiative is an experiment and developmental effort to ingest data point and deduce likely succeeding entropy from the current understanding of an word problem , " explainsone documentfrom the FOIA request .

" Sentient employs analytical sensemaking , multi - intelligence fusion , and automated orchestrated accumulation to capture and maintain hold of active targets and activity , delivering mix intelligence,“reads another .

However , beyond the jargon , the Sentient project persist classified to the populace , so trivial is known about the ins - and - out of what it ’s doing or how it ’s doing it . It all vocalize a number dystopian , but the project holds the potentiality to make civilian satellites more effective and fat . The NRO also toldThe Vergethat civilians should not be too implicated with domestic surveillance as they strictly followExecutive Order 12333 , which adumbrate what intelligence the authorities can legally gather on people in the US .

TheNROis a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an   arm of the States Department of Defense that deals with satellites and signal intelligence activity . Unlike other intelligence agencies , such as the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) or National Security Agency ( NSA ) , the NRO remains relatively unknown and does a good problem of keeping out of the media public eye . They areperhaps most recognizedin the public imagination from their USA-247 satellite badge that features a giant devilfish with its tentacles wrapped around the mankind , accompanied by the shibboleth " Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach . "

Whatever goes on at the NRO and their Sentient project , they certainly do n’t shy aside from sometime commonplace of undercover agent and news agencies .