In the past few years, the US military has deployed multiple AI-enabled technologies to help advance its warfighting abilities.
The most prominent example of this is Maven Smart Systems, the Pentagon's main software platform for organising intelligence and data.
Developed by US defence company Palantir, it uses AI to help personnel select and identify targets to strike. Palantir has integrated the technology from several leading AI companies into Maven, and it has enabled some processes to be significantly speeded up.
Retired Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan, who is the former director of Project Maven, said the "philosophy" seems to be: "Go as fast as possible to deploy [AI technology] as widely as possible, potentially at the expense of the rigour and discipline of test and evaluation."
However, the Pentagon has maintained that adopting AI technologies is essential for winning wars. "Speed defines victory in the AI era," said Emil Michael, an under secretary in the US Department of Defense, in a statement earlier this year.
Google's contract with the Pentagon, which was signed earlier this year, allows its AI technology to be used for classified military work. The agreement says Google's AI models can be used for "any lawful government purpose"
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