The Army wants AI to take physical risk off of its soldiers
The Army is wholeheartedly embracing the idea that artificial intelligence will play a role on the battlefield—but don’t expect robots to replace soldiers everywhere.
What service leaders would like is to send a robot out to clear a building or lay a line charge to detonate an obstacle, Gen. James Rainey, head of Army Futures Command, told an audience Tuesday at the McAleese defense conference outside Washington.
“The real art of the deal is going to be: how do you figure out how to integrate them into formations in a way that optimizes the advantages? I’m talking about no blood through first contact,” Rainey said.
And that’s a priority for the Army as it looks to redesign its warfighting doctrine in the wake of the Global War on Terror to be better prepared to fight a peer adversary on the ground, air, and in cyberspace while keeping its equipment and people safe and powered.