Pentagon Plans Vast AI Fleet

[william]

Defense Department seeks an array of air-, land- and sea-based autonomous systems to keep pace with adversaries​

Kathleen Hicks, the deputy secretary of defense, will provide new details in a speech later Wednesday about the department’s plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to develop an array of thousands of air-, land- and sea-based artificial-intelligence systems that are intended to be “small, smart, cheap.”

The U.S. is seeking to keep pace with China’s rapidly expanding military amid concerns that the Pentagon bureaucracy takes too long to develop and deploy cutting-edge systems.

WSJ News Exclusive | Pentagon Plans Vast AI Fleet to Counter China Threat

The U.S. is seeking to keep pace with China amid concerns that the Pentagon bureaucracy takes too long on cutting-edge systems.

www.wsj.com

 

[william]

Replicator Revealed
BERGEN, Norway, and WASHINGTON — To counter China’s military mass, the Pentagon today announced a new initiative, dubbed Replicator, that aims to crank out “multiple thousands” of “attritable autonomous systems” across “multiple domains” within two years.

“To be clear, America still benefits from platforms that are large, exquisite, expensive, and few. But Replicator will galvanize progress in the too-slow shift of US military innovation to leverage platforms that are small, smart, cheap, and many,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said today at National Defense Industrial Association in Washington, DC. “So now is the time to take all-domain, attritable autonomy to the next level: to produce and deliver capabilities to warfighters at the volume and velocity required to deter aggression, to win if we’re forced to fight.”

'Replicator' revealed: Pentagon initiative to counter China with mass-produced autonomous systems - Breaking Defense

Though being "cagey" about details, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kath Hicks said the new Replicator program is meant to get "multiple thousands" of autonomous systems in the hands of servicemembers with two years.

breakingdefense.com

 

[Friendly Engineer]

AI controlled craft, what could possibly go wrong?

 

[Totality 🇺🇦 🇮🇱]

AI controlled craft, what could possibly go wrong?

We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

 

[Friendly Engineer]

We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

 

[Irag8er]

AI controlled craft, what could possibly go wrong?

Took the words right off my keyboard

 

[Irag8er]

AI-powered combat aircraft bring US huge battlefield advantage but raise ethical questions​

AI-powered combat aircraft bring US huge battlefield advantage but raise ethical questions

The U.S. Air Force has continued to develop an unmanned aircraft that is run by artificial intelligence, a platform it believes can provide new battlefield advantages.

www.foxnews.com