The Defense Innovation Board—an advisory committee of tech executives, scholars, and technologists—has unveiled its list of ethical principles for artificial intelligence (AI). If adopted by the Defense Department, then the recommendations will help shape the Pentagon’s use of AI in both combat and non-combat systems. The board’s principles are an important milestone that should be celebrated, but the real challenge of adoption and implementation is just beginning. For the principles to have an impact, the department will need strong leadership from the Joint AI Center (JAIC), buy-in from senior military leadership and outside groups, and additional technical expertise within the Defense Department. Read More
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Future Military Intelligence CONOPS and S&T Investment Roadmap 2035-2050: The Cognitive War
There are four major findings about operations critical to the effectiveness and success of future of intelligence operations in 2035-2050 and beyond. The findings apply broadly not only to military intelligence, but the greater Intelligence Community (IC), the DoD, and by default to several other elements of our federal national security framework. However, realizing the Future Intelligence CONOPS 2035-2050 projection assumes addressing the findings. If not, it highly probable intelligence operations will continue to mimic the current reactive posture of today.
The four findings:
— The IC and DoD, created in 1947, continue to function in a primarily reactive posture, using the industrial age processes of the era in which they were created.
— Information & democratization of technology has changed the character of warfare.
— 2018 National Security and Defense Security Strategies address the new character of warfare.
— Immediate investments are required to enable the success and effectiveness of future intelligence operations in 2035-2050 and beyond. Read More
National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI): Initial Report
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence — which is tasked with researching ways to advance the development of AI for national security and defense purposes — released its initial report to Congress July 31.
The panel has 15 members, led by Chairman Eric Schmidt, the former head of Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Vice Chairman Robert O. Work, a former deputy secretary of defense who served in the Obama administration. Read More
National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI): Interim Report
In the report, the government-commissioned panel notes many times that China is investing more in AI and is taking advantage of the U.S. to “transfer AI know-how.” The report also says that AI infrastructure within the Department of Defense “is severely underdeveloped.”
The Commission raised concerns about the progress China has made. The report also said the U.S. government still faces enormous work before it can transition AI from “a promising technological novelty into a mature technology integrated into core national security missions.” Read More
‘Tectonic shift’ of Space Command has intelligence community feeling aftershocks
Redefining space as a warfighting domain made waves throughout the defense community as they began thinking about defending assets in space. Maj. Gen. John Shaw, deputy commander for Air Force Space Command, called the creation of Space Command a “tectonic shift.” Now the aftershocks of that shift are being felt in the intelligence community as analysts have to reconsider space’s role in intelligence gathering.
“When you think of space and intelligence together, you might be like me: I spent my career thinking about intelligence collection in space coming down to the Earth, intelligence from space,” Shaw said on Agency in Focus: Intelligence Community. “We need to think really, really hard now about intelligence for space. Where is that intelligence expertise that processes the capabilities? We have to understand what’s actually happening in the space environment.” Read More
Intelligence community laying foundation for AI data analysis
Artificial intelligence is a concept that seems tailor-made for the intelligence community. The ability to sort through massive amounts of data, seeking out patterns large and small, anomalies that warrant further investigation, that’s what intelligence analysts do already. Imagine what they could achieve when augmented by AI?
But it’s not as simple as just adopting it. Dean Souleles, chief technology advisor for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said on Agency in Focus – Intelligence Community that the IC is working now to lay the foundation for adopting AI. Read More
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