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Pentagon Sees Broader Role for AI in Setting Military Targets
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Pentagon Sees Broader Role for AI in Setting Military Targets The Pentagon has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets in battle, opening the way for artificial intelligence to make critical wartime decisions in the future. The revised targeting principles, approved without public disclosure in April, envision “systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring,” evolving from what it describes as the current practice of having “‘human in the loop’...
Pentagon Sees Broader Role for AI in Setting Military Targets
The Pentagon has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets in battle, opening the way for artificial intelligence to make critical wartime decisions in the future.
The revised targeting principles, approved without public disclosure in April, envision “systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring,” evolving from what it describes as the current practice of having “‘human in the loop’ systems, in which a human initiates actions.”