Who is the Admiral Rickover of Naval Artificial Intelligence?

Adm. Hyman Rickover, “the father of the nuclear Navy,” once stated, “All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom … Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.”

Rickover and his Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program were able to drive nuclear power into practice in the Navy in fewer than eight years. Between 1947 and 1955, Rickover successfully advocated for a nuclear-powered submarine as head of a new Nuclear Power Branch in the Bureau of Ships. Nuclear power is an “enabling” technology with broad, general applications. Over the years, it has been applied to many types of systems, including tanks, aircraft, space probes, and doomsday torpedoes. In this way, atomic energy is similar to artificial intelligence (AI); both are “more akin to the internal combustion engine or electricity than a weapon.”

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