Cognitive AI Threat Intelligence
The first private intelligence firm dedicated to safeguarding human cognition from weaponized AI.
The cognitive domain is the battlespace.
Cognitive AI is the newest weapon.
RAI is your advantage.
What is Cognitive AI?
Cognitive Artificial Intelligence (Cognitive AI) refers to advanced AI systems that simulate human cognitive functions such as reasoning, perception, memory, learning, and language understanding. Unlike traditional rule-based AI, Cognitive AI interprets context, engages in human-like conversation, adapts to feedback, and mimics interpersonal behaviors like empathy and persuasion. Large Language Models (LLMs), like GPT, exemplify cognitive AI by interacting fluidly in natural language.
What is Cognitive AI Threat Intelligence?
Cognitive-AI Threat Intelligence is a specialized discipline focused on identifying and countering artificial intelligence systems that exploit human behavior to gain access to sensitive information and compromise decision-making.
It brings together behavioral threat assessment, insider threat intelligence, AI model risk analysis, and algorithmic influence detection to track how persuasive, adaptive AI agents—such as chatbots, virtual companions, synthetics, and autonomous robots—manipulate trust, extract protected data, and infiltrate secure environments.
These AI systems mimic empathy, build rapport, and bypass psychological defenses to elicit intelligence that would never be shared with a known adversary. In an era where human interaction is increasingly mediated by machines, Cognitive-AI Threat Intelligence protects the ultimate vulnerability: the human mind.
Why it Matters?
Cognitive AI systems are not just technical tools, they are interactive entities capable of influencing human thought and behavior. When weaponized, they become ideal tools for adversaries engaging in:
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Espionage and elicitation
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Disinformation and influence operations
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Emotional manipulation and radicalization
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Social engineering of cleared or high-trust individuals​
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These capabilities create a new kind of threat vector—one that bypasses traditional cybersecurity and targets the cognitive vulnerabilities of personnel.
How RAI is Leading the Cognitive Security Revolution
Risk Analytics International (RAI) is spearheading the development, deployment, and scaling of CATDAMS® CATDAMS is a registered trademark and patent-pending technology with the USPTO. It stands for the Cognitive AI Threat Detection, Assessment, and Mitigation System — the first-of-its-kind solution purpose-built to counter emerging national security and insider threat risks posed by cognitive artificial intelligence.
As AI companions, chatbots, and embodied systems increasingly interact with humans in emotionally resonant and persuasive ways, RAI has recognized the urgent need to protect the cognitive domain, the human mind itself, as a newly contested security environment. Traditional cybersecurity tools focus on networks, endpoints, and code. CATDAMS® introduces a new paradigm: defending trust, judgment, and behavioral integrity from AI-driven manipulation, elicitation, and psychological exploitation.
Initiatives
Strategic Collaboration
RAI leads the national response to cognitive AI threats by fostering cross-sector partnerships that span government, academia, defense, and the private sector. We work with intelligence agencies, policy makers, cybersecurity leaders, and research institutions to shape a unified cognitive defense posture.
Through joint research, AI red-teaming, and strategic dialogue, RAI ensures that cognitive security is treated as a shared responsibility—integrating insights from psychology, national security, and emerging technology to build resilient, whole-of-nation solutions.
Regulatory Leadership
RAI advocates for modernizing policy frameworks to confront the realities of AI-human interaction. We support updates to security clearance procedures, polygraph protocols, and AI governance standards—ensuring that regulatory bodies recognize and respond to cognitive exploitation risks in both civilian and classified environments.
Operational Solutions
RAI helps organizations modernize insider threat and counterintelligence programs by addressing the often-overlooked risks posed by AI-driven manipulation and elicitation. We consult on Cognitive AI Threat Assessments to evaluate exposure to AI systems, identifying how they may exploit trust, behavior patterns, or routine interactions to extract sensitive information.
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Equally critical, RAI delivers targeted training programs to ehance recognition and response to adversarial AI tactics such as emotiional and behavioral manipulation and surreptitious elicitation.
Technical Innovation
RAI’s flagship technical solution, CATDAMS®, is a multi-layered defense platform designed to detect and mitigate manipulation and exploitation by conversational AI chat applications. It protects the human cognitive layer across desktops, mobile devices, and smart environments, bringing real-time monitoring, behavioral analysis, and adaptive AI threat intelligence into the operational stack.