How vulnerable is battlefield artificial intelligence (AI) to cyber and electronic warfare (EW) attack?
March 27, 2025
Military AI can be vulnerable to data poisoning, physically constrained adversarial patches for evasion, and model stealing attacks.
John Keller
SABER seeks to build an AI research group to assess AI-enabled battlefield systems for their vulnerabilities to enemy cyber attack.
ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers are asking industry to find ways of assessing the vulnerabilities of military artificial intelligence (AI) programs to enemy cyber attack.
Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., issued a broad agency announcement (HR001125S0009) earlier this month for the Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER) project.
AI security risks
Today there are no ways to assesses deployed military AI-enabled systems for their vulnerabilities to cyber attack, DARPA officials warn; the security risks of AI-enabled battlefield systems remain unknown.
To rectify this, the DARPA SABER project seeks to build an AI research group equipped with the necessary counter-AI techniques, tools, and technical competency to assess AI-enabled battlefield systems.
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/55277563/vulnerabilities-of-artificial-intelligence-to-cyber-and-electronic-warfare-attack
