La inteligencia artificial est\u00e1 acelerando enormemente la toma de decisiones militares, y las fuerzas armadas que no se mantengan al d\u00eda corren el riesgo de verse superadas, dijo el comandante de la OTAN a cargo de la transformaci\u00f3n estrat\u00e9gica en la alianza en la Cumbre de Acci\u00f3n de IA en Par\u00eds esta semana.\u00a0Los miembros de la Alianza est\u00e1n utilizando ahora la IA en el proceso de toma de decisiones de observaci\u00f3n, orientaci\u00f3n, decisi\u00f3n y acci\u00f3n (OODA), dijo el Comandante Supremo Aliado de Transformaci\u00f3n de la OTAN, el almirante Pierre Vandier, en una conferencia centrada en la\u00a0IA militar.<\/p>\n
PARIS \u2014 Artificial intelligence is massively accelerating military decision making, and armed forces that don\u2019t keep up risk being outmatched, the NATO commander in charge of strategic transformation at the alliance said at the AI Action Summit in Paris this week.<\/p>\n
Alliance members are now using AI in the decision-making loop of observe, orient, decide and act, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Adm. Pierre Vandier, said at a conference focused on military AI. Analysis that previously took hours or days, such as processing large amounts of sensor data, can now be done in a matter of seconds, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe speed of operations will dramatically change,\u201d Vandier said at a press briefing on Monday. \u201cYou see that in Ukraine. If you do not adapt at speed and at scale, you die.\u201d<\/p>\n
The major powers have identified AI as a key enabler for future warfare, with the U.S. spending billions on AI for defense, while trying to limit China\u2019s access to enablers such as hardware from Nvidia. Meanwhile, summit host France says it plans to become the leader in military AI in Europe.<\/p>\n
AI brings \u201ca huge acceleration of the speed of decision,\u201d Vandier said. \u201cA huge acceleration that overtakes a lot of things in our system, and the system of the enemy we intend to outpace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vandier made a comparison to the movie The Matrix, where the main character Neo dodges bullets by having learned to move faster than his opponent\u2019s projectiles. \u201cThe question for us is, are we already dead? So it\u2019s a question of speed of change.\u201d<\/p>\n
The speediness of AI raises questions about whether having a human in the control loop improves the quality of decision making, said \u200aJeroen van der Vlugt, chief information officer at the Netherlands Ministry of Defence. He said AI can make decisions based on amounts of data that would be impossible for humans to manage, with analysis brought down to milliseconds.<\/p>\n
A group of 25 countries at the Paris summit signed a\u00a0declaration on AI-enabled weapon systems<\/a>, pledging they won\u2019t authorize life-and-death decisions by an autonomous weapon system operating completely outside human control. Summit co-chair India didn\u2019t sign the declaration, nor did the U.K. or the United States.<\/p>\n \u201cWe already have militaries full of intelligent, autonomous agents \u2013 we call them soldiers or airmen or Marines,\u201d said Gregory Allen, the director of the Wadhwani AI Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank. \u201cJust as military commanders are accountable, states are also responsible for the actions of their military forces, and nothing about the changing landscape of artificial intelligence is going to ever change those two facts.\u201d<\/p>\n