Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, who has recely made coroversial commes about competition in the field of artificial ielligence, has announced in his latest stateme that the US military is lagging behind its competitors in the use of artificial ielligence and needs a fundameal overhaul.
According to Business Insider, this former director of the technology world had previously said in a strange comme that the reason for Google’s lag in the artificial ielligence competition is the remote work of employees, but he later retracted his opinion. He also considered Nvidia the winner of the artificial ielligence competition. But Schmidt’s latest comme refers to the use of artificial ielligence in wars. According to him, artificial ielligence technology is changing wars and the US military needs a fundameal review of its policies.
Artificial ielligence can have a huge impact on the future of the battlefield
An article published joily by Eric Schmidt and Mark Alexander Milley, the former chairman of the Joi Chiefs of Staff of the US Army, for the journal Foreign Affairs examines the future of wars in the world.
In a part of this article, it is said that Ukrainian soldiers are destroying tanks and planes using artificial ielligence. Also, in Myanmar and Sudan, the governme and rebels use algorithms for war.
Eric Schmidt and General Milley believe that in future wars, the coury that can have autonomous weapons systems and powerful algorithms will win, not the coury that can bring more soldiers or jets, ships and tanks to the battlefield.
In another part of this article, it is poied out that the US military does not accompany the high speed of this technology. According to Eric Schmidt and General Milley, the coury’s military has yet to embrace artificial ielligence, and the Peagon doesn’t seem to be moving fast enough to make the change. In the end, these two people have poied out that the US Army needs a fundameal revision in this regard.
Eric Schmidt is currely part of an active drone startup called White Stork. The company focuses on building artificial ielligence-based drones to ideify targets and reduce human costs in warfare.
