{"id":122226,"date":"2021-05-03T01:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T08:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/west-africa-is-the-latest-testing-ground-for-us-military-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2021-05-03T01:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T08:22:47","slug":"west-africa-is-the-latest-testing-ground-for-us-military-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/west-africa-is-the-latest-testing-ground-for-us-military-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"West Africa is the Latest Testing Ground for US Military Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMSkLu31QdE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In its preparation for great power competition, the US military is modernizing its artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and testing them in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p><em>by Scott Timcke<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>NIAMI, NIGER <\/strong>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/africasacountry.com\/2021\/04\/machine-wars\" target=\"_blank\">Africa is a Country<\/a>) \u2014 One striking feature of US military involvement in West Africa is the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/evolution-us-defense-posture-north-and-west-africa\" target=\"_blank\">absence of an observable strategic vision<\/a> for a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.airuniversity.af.edu\/Portals\/10\/JEMEAA\/Journals\/Volume-01_Issue-1\/JEMEAA_01_1_burgess.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">desired end state<\/a>. Nominally, US presence in the region\u2019s multilayered conflicts revolves around building \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_reports\/RR201.html\" target=\"_blank\">security cooperation<\/a>\u201d with state partners to improve counterterrorism capabilities, ostensibly providing protection to communities that states cannot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its preparation for great power competition, the US military is modernizing its artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and testing them in West Africa. by Scott Timcke NIAMI, NIGER (Africa is a Country) \u2014 One striking feature of US military involvement in West Africa is the absence of an observable strategic vision for a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}