{"id":176735,"date":"2023-11-25T16:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/pentagon-steps-on-ai-accelerator-as-age-of-lethal-autonomy-looms"},"modified":"2023-11-25T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T22:28:13","slug":"pentagon-steps-on-ai-accelerator-as-age-of-lethal-autonomy-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/pentagon-steps-on-ai-accelerator-as-age-of-lethal-autonomy-looms","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon steps on AI accelerator as age of lethal autonomy looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-steps-on-ai-accelerator-as-age-of-lethal-autonomy-looms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) \u2014 Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces\u2019 missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers\u2019 fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Pentagon is intent on fielding multiple thousands of relatively inexpensive, expendable AI-enabled autonomous vehicles by 2026 to keep pace with China. The ambitious initiative \u2014 dubbed Replicator \u2014 seeks to \u201cgalvanize progress in the too-slow shift of U.S. military innovation to leverage platforms that are small, smart, cheap, and many,\u201d Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said in August.<\/p>\n<p>While its funding is uncertain and details vague, Replicator is expected to accelerate hard decisions on what AI tech is mature and trustworthy enough to deploy \u2014 including on weaponized systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) \u2014 Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces\u2019 missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers\u2019 fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space. Now, the Pentagon is intent on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6,8,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176735","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}