The field of science fiction has shown us, for many years, how artificial intelligence can become a weapon for the wars of the future. Minority Report?
Now, what seemed a distant or distant future, seems to be closer thanks to the artificial intelligence being developed by the United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM), which has confirmed that this AI predicts attacks “days in advance”.
Technological advances in military applications are largely aimed at reducing the risk to human lives and conducting operations from a safe distance. Whether it’s swarms of drones or AI support for fighter pilots, the goal is to reduce collateral damage while improving attack options.
At the moment, the US military has already conducted the third test in the series of Global Information Mastery Experiments (GIDE). This AI uses machine learning to sift through large amounts of data and identify small changes that humans could miss , such as the number of cars increasing or decreasing in a parking lot, which could indicate a threat in progress. The program can then alert human agents to take a closer look at the location and check the threat risk.
“GIDE embodies a fundamental change in the way we use information and data to increase decision space for leaders from the tactical level to the strategic level; not only for military leaders, but also offering opportunities for our civilian leaders. “ US Air Force General Glen D. VanHerck explained at a press conference.
The idea is to anticipate the movements of other nations well in advance, which means that deterrents and precautions can be taken before fighting begins or before hostilities have a chance to escalate.
The latest experiment, GIDE 3, focused on ‘disputed logistics’, in a scenario where communication lines in the Panama Canal were compromised, military officials said.
With data already available
Unlike other American programs that seek to implement artificial intelligence , the GIDE program does not possess new abilities to obtain its data, but instead used existing information satellites, radar, underwater capabilities, cyber capabilities, and intelligence service. “What we’re doing is making that data available and shared in a cloud where machine learning and artificial intelligence look at it,” VanHerck said.
The program shared all this information in a cloud where machine learning and artificial intelligence processed and provided critical information to decision makers, almost in real time.
The new system represents a “leap forward in our ability to maintain domain awareness, achieve information mastery, and provide decision superiority in competition and crisis,” VanHerck clarified. “GIDE drives faster decisions and offers proactive options by making new technologies more accessible and more effective.”
