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102 Foreign Aff. 56 (2023)
AI Is Already at War: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform the Military

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            AI Is Already


                      at War



        How Artificial Intelligence Will

              Transform the Military

                 MICHELE A. FLOURNOY






    n 2002, a special operations team practiced raiding a safehouse.The
    team silently approached a two-story building, built for military
    training, where a fictitious terrorist leader was hiding. One soldier
crept up to an open window and tossed in a small drone piloted by
artificial intelligence.The Ai drone began flying autonomously through
the building, room by room, beaming footage from its camera directly
to the commander's handheld tablet outside. In just a few minutes,
the team had full situational awareness of the interior of the building.
It knew which rooms were empty, which were occupied by sleeping
family members, and where the primary target was.The team entered
the building knowing exactly where to go, reducing the risk for each
member.The  drill was a success: had it been real, the team would have
killed the terrorist leader.



MICHELE A. FLOURNOY is Co-Founder and Managing Partner ofWestExec Advisors
and Chair of the Center for a New American Security. She served as Undersecretary of
Defense for Policy from 2009 to 2012.


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