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The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems | The move is a boon to ‘AI for defense’ companies that want an even faster road to adoption.
The move is a boon to ‘AI for defense’ companies that want an even faster road to adoption.
As part of a string of moves aimed at “reducing bloated bureaucracy and wasteful spending in favor of increased lethality,” Hegseth cut the size of the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation in half. It’s true that the military was experimenting with artificial intelligence long before the current AI boom, particularly with computer vision for drone feeds, and defense tech companies have been winning big contracts for this push across multiple presidential administrations. The Pentagon is announcing ambitious pilots specifically for large language models, a relatively nascent technology that by its very nature produces hallucinations and errors, and it appears eager to put much-hyped AI into everything.
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