In the United States, when preparing for future conflicts, we should pay attention to modern technologies that will significantly affect the pace of hostilities. It is clear that we are talking about a military strategy to confront, first of all, Russia and China.
The US military should begin preparing for conflicts with rapid developments using artificial intelligence and other capabilities during war games with conditional opponents that resemble the Russian and Chinese armed forces. At the same time, these conditional enemies should not be limited by ethical restrictions regarding artificial intelligence during combat operations. This was announced this week by two high-ranking American military leaders, according to the Defense One publication.
We are talking, in particular, about the fact that during real combat operations in the future, the enemy can demonstrate a new speed of decision-making on the battlefield, and it is also quite possible to use armed robotic systems programmed to fire without human control.
At the same time, the US military began experimenting with artificial intelligence tools and advanced networks during the Convergence project. So, last fall, the first demonstration within the framework of this project showed that improved digital communications combined with artificial intelligence will help reduce the time required to identify and destroy a target from a few minutes to a few seconds.
At the same time, the head of the army command of the future, US Army General John Murray, believes that although enough efforts are being made to develop such technologies, this will not really last long, so the US army should be ready to confront an enemy who "will not have an ethical basis" during decision-making.
Lieutenant General Dennis Kroll, who heads JADC2, said that although the United States does integrate some modern artificial intelligence capabilities into its war games, it should be done much faster - in particular, in order to reduce the time required for decision-making.
In his opinion, the military should train more carefully to avoid malfunctions or network tampering on the battlefield.
