Emerging capabilities such as AI and machine learning are transforming strategic cooperation, competition and conflict throughout the Indo-Pacific and beyond, military commanders and defense analysts say. From protecting global shipping against missile strikes to augmenting war gaming and scenario modeling to employing large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT to dig through mountains of raw intelligence, AI systems accelerate decision-making and allow forces to project power while reducing the risk to troops and noncombatants.
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“Most of what militaries do is not actually right at the tip of the spear fighting,” Paul Scharre, executive vice president at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C., told the news organization PBS in mid-2023. “It’s logistics, personnel, maintenance — it’s moving people and things from one place to another on a day-to-day basis. … And, so, AI has advantages in all of those other noncombat functions that are critical to how militaries operate. And if militaries can make their maintenance and logistics and personnel and finance functions just 10% better, that’s going to have huge impacts for militaries on, ultimately, their capability at the military’s edge on the battlefield.”
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Paul Scharre
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies
Paul Scharre is the executive vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He is the award-winning author of Four Battlegrounds: Po...
