Survival of the quickest: Military leaders aim to unleash, control AI
By Rudy Ruitenberg
Thursday, Feb 13, 2025
PARIS — Artificial intelligence is massively accelerating military decision making, and armed forces that don’t keep up risk being outmatched, the NATO commander in charge of strategic transformation at the alliance said at the AI Action Summit in Paris this week.
Alliance members are now using AI in the decision-making loop of observe, orient, decide and act, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Adm. Pierre Vandier, said at a conference focused on military AI. Analysis that previously took hours or days, such as processing large amounts of sensor data, can now be done in a matter of seconds, he said.
“The speed of operations will dramatically change,” Vandier said at a press briefing on Monday. “You see that in Ukraine. If you do not adapt at speed and at scale, you die.”
The major powers have identified AI as a key enabler for future warfare, with the U.S. spending billions on AI for defense, while trying to limit China’s access to enablers such as hardware from Nvidia. Meanwhile, summit host France says it plans to become the leader in military AI in Europe.
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