El secretario de la Fuerza A\u00e9rea, Frank Kendall, dijo hoy que le pidi\u00f3 a la Junta Asesora Cient\u00edfica del servicio que inicie r\u00e1pidamente un estudio de los impactos potenciales de la inteligencia artificial \u201cgenerativa\u201d, como el cada vez m\u00e1s popular programa de IA ChatGPT.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON \u2014 Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said today that he has asked the service\u2019s Scientific Advisory Board to rapidly kick out a study of the potential impacts of \u201cgenerative\u201d artificial intelligence, such as the increasingly popular AI program\u00a0ChatGPT<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve asked my Scientific Advisory Board to do two things really with AI. One was to take a look at the generative AI technologies like ChatGPT and think about the military applications of them, to put a small team together to do that fairly quickly,\u201d he said during an online interview with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). \u201cBut also to put together a more permanent, AI focused group that will look at the collection of AI technologies, quote, unquote, and help us understand them and figuring out how to bring them in as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n The board\u00a0met June 15<\/a>\u00a0to look at progress in its\u00a0ongoing studies,<\/a>\u00a0due to be wrapped up next month.<\/p>\n Kendall stressed that at the moment ChatGPT and other generative\u00a0artificial intelligence<\/a>\u00a0systems, which can create entirely new text, code or images rather than just categorizing and highlighting existing ones, are not ready for primetime.<\/p>\n \u201cI find limited utility in that type of AI for the military, so far. I\u2019m looking, and we\u2019re all looking, right? But having it write documents for you, which is what ChatGPT does? [It] is not is not reliable, in terms of the truthfulness of what it produces,\u201d he said. \u201cWe got ways to go, before we can rely on tools like that to do operational orders, for example.\u201d<\/p>\n Former AI officers in the Pentagon previously expressed their concerns about generative AI to Breaking Defense, especially the current tech\u2019s\u00a0pro<\/a>clivity for \u201challucinating\u201d information<\/a>. And in May, Pentagon Chief Officer for Digital and AI, Craig Martell,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0he too was \u201cscared to death\u201d about the potential for AI to be used for extremely effective disinformation.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, Kendall said, \u201cthere is potential there for assistance, if you will, with some of the tasks that we do.\u201d<\/p>\n For the most part, however, Defense Department interest in AI is focused on things like \u201cpattern recognition, targeting, sorting through a lot of intel functions, where neural networks and machine learning can be \u2026 very helpful,\u201d he explained. \u201cWhat we\u2019re calling AI offers now is much higher processing speeds and much more data that can be handled. So, it\u2019s more of an incremental advance in technology than people acknowledge many times, but it has revolutionary potential in terms of the capability that it provides.\u201d<\/p>\n Kendall stressed that those kinds of AI tools to assist decision-making already are being fielded in the commercial world \u2014 and inevitably will make their way into military systems.<\/p>\n \u201c[T]he thing that people don\u2019t, I think, really appreciate enough is that those technologies are happening with you ask for them or not,\u201d he said. \u201cAll of those things are going to be coming in, they\u2019re going to be used. They\u2019re going to give us more capability.\u201d<\/p>\n US military commanders have been\u00a0clamoring for such AI decision aids<\/a>\u00a0for several years in order to out-think adversaries, both in future\u00a0all domain warfare<\/a>\u00a0operations but also in \u201cgray zone\u201d competition just below the threshold of conflict.<\/p>\n And\u00a0in February<\/a>, Martell reinvigorated the\u00a0Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE)<\/a>\u00a0series, designed to flesh out the US military\u2019s ambitious\u00a0Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2)<\/a>\u00a0concept aimed at machine-speed warfighting across the land, air, sea, space and cyber domains. The GIDE series, first held\u00a0in 2021<\/a>, includes a strong focus on the use of AI and machine learning technologies for tasking sensors and targeting shooters.<\/p>\n Thus, Kendall explained, the goal is to work through the ethical considerations while at the same time moving AI technology into the field fast.<\/p>\n \u201cHumans are still going to have the role and be responsible for what actions are taken, and they have to be in the decision-making process so they can do that in a way which is also operationally efficient. And we\u2019ve got to make sure that we apply those technologies in an ethical way, in a responsible way,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we have to be very smart about how we write requirements, so that we provide the opportunity for those technologies to get on board and then find paths for them that address all the issues I just talked about, but get them in the hands of warfighters where they can give them an advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n