Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field
The Army is laying the groundwork for a sweeping expansion of its artificial intelligence capabilities, creating new career fields as the service races to prepare for what top officials see as a tech-driven future fight. Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning, designated […]
Army Testing Robot Dogs Armed with Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Rifles in Middle East
The Army has sent at least one “robot dog” armed with an artificial intelligence-enabled gun turret to the Middle East for testing as a fresh counter-drone capability for U.S. service members. Photos published to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service last week show a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Quadrupedal-Unmanned Ground Vehicle, or Q-UGV, armed with […]
Soldier's Child Porn Charges Come as Feds Pursue Cases in Which Artificial Intelligence Was Used to Make Images
A U.S. soldier in Alaska is facing federal charges after prosecutors say that he used artificial intelligence to create sexual images of children whom he knew — including those around his own daughter’s age. Spc. Seth Herrera, 34, who is stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, was arrested last week on three charges […]
Army Advocates Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Soldiers as Other Services Are Hesitant
The Army wants its leaders to tout the use of generative artificial intelligence to the rank and file as a means to make work easier for soldiers, according to a new memo, even as other services have been hesitant to approve those tools for regular use. The service, not typically known for embracing the bleeding […]