Abstract
This article raises awareness on the value of epistemic diversity for democratic intelligence governance by highlighting the role of academia. Specifically, it argues that the expertise of critically engaged scholars can play a leading role in challenging the expert discourse of intelligence agencies in the age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence proliferation. The article examines how the intelligence expert discourse is constructed in the post-Snowden landscape in the United Kingdom by investigating the public communication strategies of Government Communications Headquarters. Driven by a normative rhetoric centered on transparency, the agency’s unprecedented steps toward public engagement are traced through an analysis of key policy documents, official statements, and a museum exhibition. In the ensuing, and novel, context of openness and widespread discursivity around controversial technologies and practices employed by intelligence agencies, critically engaged academia can bring a much-needed diversity of perspective to an increasingly complex and vital policy area in contemporary democratic societies.
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