Neil Thompson
Western efforts to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into military operations and technology development (including drone and missile targeting) are no longer in their early stages. Projects for implementing AI into the armed forces like the US military’s Project Maven, which began in 2017 and is expected to report later this year, are beginning to bear fruit.
Though AI breakthroughs for missile targets are still around four years away, according to Courtney Manning, director of AI Imperative 2030 at the American Security Project, defence companies are making a number of innovations using AI that can be applied to upgrade already-existing weapons technologies like missile systems.
These innovations will accelerate in the coming decades as Western militaries face renewed challenges from geopolitical rivals like Russia and China.
“With the recent downsizing of the federal workforce and increased participation of tech moguls like Elon Musk in the current administration, I now expect that [US] technology firms themselves will have a greater impact on the way AI is incorporated in US [weapons] systems than any [government-lead] Maven-like initiative,” Manning said.
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