AI WARFARE IS ALREADY HERE

Published on February 29, 2024

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Joey Temple.

US military operators started out skeptical about AI, but now they are the ones developing and using Project Maven to identify targets on the battlefield.

On a summer evening in 2020 at Fort Liberty, a sprawling US Army installation in North Carolina, soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps pored over satellite images on the computers in their command post. They weren’t the only ones looking. Moments earlier, an artificial intelligence program had scanned the pictures, with instructions to identify and suggest targets.

The program asked the human minders to confirm its selection: a decommissioned tank. After they decided the AI had it right, the system sent a message to an M142 Himars—or High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, the wheeled rocket launcher that’s a mainstay of America’s artillery forces—instructing it to fire. A rocket whistled through the air and found its mark, destroying the tank.

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