Artificial Intelligence, Lawyers And Laws Of War - AI Summary

But in a highly automated future war of long-range missiles, swarming robots, and sensor jamming, warned the head of Army Futures Command, "you're not going to have 30 seconds to stand around a mapboard and make those decisions." "Back when I was a brigade commander, even when I was commander of the Third Infantry Division in Afghanistan," Murray recalled, "life and death decisions were being made just about every day, and it usually was around, either [a] mapboard or some sort of digital display." Along with the staff officers for intelligence, operations and fire support, he said, one of a handful of "key people standing around that mapboard" was the command's lawyer, its Staff Judge Advocate. Gen. Murray raised this question addressing a West Point-Army Futures Command conference on the law of future war, but he didn't provide an answer. In its Project Convergence wargames last fall, Murray noted, the Army already used AI to detect potential targets in satellite images, then move that targeting data to artillery batteries on the ground in "tens of seconds," as opposed to the "tens of minutes" the traditional call-for-fires process takes.