Why the military needs Skynet
By: Carl De Groote and Chuck Louisell  
In October 1984, the movie “The Terminator†introduced us to Skynet, a futuristic artificial intelligence system that eventually became “self-aware†before turning on its creators and aiming to wipe out humanity. It is an overly sensational image of a future dominated by renegade intelligent machines.
In a more realistic future environment, artificial intelligence is distributed throughout the battlespace, collecting, curating, aggregating, fusing and routing information to create an ever-increasing advantage across various operations and sustainment scenarios for the military. Unlike Skynet, this distributed AI is underpinned by a delegation framework where humans are essential.
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