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The US National Security Commission has issued a massive, 700 page final report on the impact of AI on defense and intelligence. The report s conclusions are concerning, and not without controversy. US tech leaders were directly involved in this report - the proposed plan of action is worth a close look.
I attended the Third Annual AI Summit at the Potomac Officers Club, a conference focused on AI for Defense and Intelligence.
The opening keynote by Yii Bajaktari, Executive Director, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) covered the highlights of his recently released report with an uncomfortable message: America is not prepared to defend or compete in the AI era.
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email A Solid Plan to Compete with China in Artificial Intelligence
The NSCAI’s new report should also be taken as the first plank in a national technology strategy.
If the United States is to keep ahead of a rapidly gaining China in the field of artificial intelligence, it needs a concrete and comprehensive plan for action. Such a plan is presented in the final report, released today, of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, or NSCAI. Critically, this report is about more than AI. It is the opening salvo of a much-needed effort to create an overarching national strategy for technology, a whole-of-government effort to safeguard American technological leadership.
Military intelligence: the DoD ‘is now trying to make the leap to a software-intensive enterprise’ says the new report from the NSCAI.
The US Department of Defense (DoD) must set “an ambitious goal” to have the foundations for widespread integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across defence in place by 2025, according to a draft of the final report from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI).
This should include “a common digital infrastructure that is accessible to internal AI development teams and critical industry partners, a technically literate workforce, and modern AI-enabled business practices that improve efficiency”.
The draft report was published last month; the final version will be released on 1 March 2021.