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Special Operators Want AI to Help Discern Public Opinion
« on: May 23, 2022, 08:11:21 am »
Special Operators Want AI to Help Discern Public Opinion
New sentiment-analysis tools would improve psyops, SOCOM commander says.
PATRICK TUCKER | MAY 20, 2022
 
   
TAMPA, Florida—U.S. special operators have long understood that military advantage depends on how the public perceives the players. In the next few years, they hope to develop AI tools that can measure those perceptions better than ever—perhaps even well enough to vault U.S. influence operations past the larger efforts of China and Russia.

“In the information space, I still don't think that we have all the tools that we need, and we need to…continue to develop that speed,” said Gen. Richard Clark, who leads U.S. Special Operations Command.

“The one thing that we're working on very hard at is just the sentiment analysis capability,” said Clark, who spoke Monday at the NDIA SOFIC conference here. “I think if we can apply big data, along with artificial intelligence and machine learning, I think it will give our people that are working in this space an advantage…I think we've got to continue to look at the [legal] authorities that go with that.”

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2022/05/special-operators-want-ai-help-discern-public-opinion/367105/