June 6, 2021
China, Be Scared: How the U.S. Military Plans to Stay One Step Ahead
Adversaries are developing defensive countermeasures intended to confuse or “throw off” AI algorithms engineered to detect them.
by Kris Osborn
Here's What You Need to Know: An AI-capable system is only as effective or as extensive as its database.
If an enemy tank were hiding in a forest to deliberately avoid being detected by overhead surveillance drones, it might choose heavily wooded areas where any clear view of the ground was obscured by trees. Better yet, the tank would turn off its engines to avoid emitting a heat signature detectable by infrared sensors.
However, one thing potential adversaries are increasingly adept at understanding is that advanced, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled computer algorithms can account for all of these variables, compare them to one another, and make a determination as to what the sensors might be detecting based upon a previously compiled database of information.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/china-be-scared-how-us-military-plans-stay-one-step-ahead-186922
