Forget Tanks, The Army's Most Powerful Weapon Will Be AI

Key point: There is an ongoing co-evolution between indispensable human cognition and decision-making and AI-enabled autonomy. As the armed soldier's clear rooms and transition from house to house in a firefight, how quickly would they need to know that groups of enemies awaited them around the next corner? Getting this information to soldiers in seconds can not only decide victory or defeat in a given battle but save lives. What if AI-enabled computer programs were able to instantly discern specifics regarding the threat such as location, weapons and affiliation by performing real-time analytics on drone feeds and other fast-moving sources of information, instantly sending crucial data to soldiers in combat? While current technology can today perform some of these functions, what if this data was provided to individual dismounted soldiers in a matter of seconds?