TITLE:
Metaverse Intelligence (METINT)
AUTHORS:
Sait Yilmaz
KEYWORDS:
Metaverse, “Metaverse Intelligence”, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence Technology, Internet of Things
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.15 No.4,
October
21,
2025
ABSTRACT: We are at the beginning of developments where the Metaverse environment, which brings together the virtual and real worlds, is becoming three-dimensional, and where studies in the field of cyber intelligence will provide intelligence platforms with vastly different functions, potentially revolutionizing our overall perspective on intelligence. This study examines the potential use of the Metaverse environment—whose initial applications we are currently experiencing in gaming, healthcare, and business—for intelligence services and its potential to create a new intelligence field, by reviewing existing literature in the intelligence domain and adopting a comparative approach. In this context, applications where virtual and real worlds intertwine in the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, particularly targeted killing systems, are evaluated as having opened a new era for intelligence activities in the Metaverse environment. This article focuses on how intelligence services can benefit from the Metaverse environment under the title “Metaverse Intelligence (METINT)”, used at the first time as a term in that article, the possible working principles in this new field, and the need for concept and structuring. The predictions about using technologies like artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and Blockchain employed in the Metaverse environment under a new intelligence framework may be included in this study for the first time in this article. In this study, after first addressing the digital transformation of power, how the Metaverse environment works will be explained, and the development of Metaverse intelligence and fundamental principles thereof will be emphasized. It is concluded that metaverse progressively provides a unique environment and opportunities for the intelligence functions and the intelligence services should promptly adapt their processes, structure and platforms into that domain.