Air Force General says US military must continue to expand its use of AI

The US military has to expand its use of AI to stay ahead of its enemies and deter war, a top Air Force general has warned. Gen. James Holmes, who leads Air Combat Command, pledged that despite a Silicon Valley backlash'AI is a big part of our future'. Holmes told a a Defense Writers Group breakfast in Washington he was concerned that the recent row with Google over Project Maven might prompt other tech firms to boycott military contracts, but said'this is part of being an American.' Google has been winding down its involvement with the Pentagon's controversial Project Maven, but its Cloud team is now talking with the US special operations community'Americans have expectations about what their government does and whether the government uses technology and tools to infringe upon their rights or not,' he said, according to Defence One. 'We have really high standards as a nation that that things that we being forward as military tools have to live up to.' 'The benefit of this will be: it will free up people to focus on thinking about what they see and what it means in the intelligence field and on passing that information to decision makers more timelty because you're able to do it faster,' Holmes said.