It's Tom here, covering Tristan as he takes a two-week sojourn through time and space. I've been struck by the recent influx of AI systems that promise to predict attacks by enemy combatants. In the last week alone, two eye-catching examples have emerged. The first was courtesy of the US military. General Glen VanHerck said the Pentagon is developing AI that could predict events "days in advance." The system was recently tested on a simulated threat to a crucial site (think: the Panama Canal).

The US military is conducting tests involving artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and sensors, that could give it the ability to predict events "days in advance". The system, called Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE), has been tested in three times according to General Glen VanHerck, Commander of United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command. These two organisations are part of eleven unified combatant commands of the Department of Defense, which also include Space Command, Cyber Command, and various commands for geographic areas. "The threats we face and the pace of change in the geostrategic environment continues to advance at really alarming rates. We've entered a era of new and renewed strategic competition, and this time, we're facing two peer competitors, both nuclear-armed, that are competing against us on a daily basis", General VanHerck said during a press briefing.