First, Manage Security Threats to Machine Learning - War on the Rocks

This article was submitted in response to the call for ideas issued by the co-chairs of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, Eric Schmidt and Robert Work. It responds to question 3 (parts a. and b.), which asks what types of AI research the national security community should focus on how the government, academia, and the private sector should work together, and what type of infrastructure the United States needs. The U.S. Army tank brigade was once again fighting in the Middle East. Its tanks were recently equipped with a computer vision-based targeting system that employed remotely controlled drones as scouts. Unfortunately, adversary forces deceived the vision system into thinking grenade flashes were actually cannon fire.