Israel objectives to be ‘AI superpower’, advance autonomous warfare

By Reuters: Israel objectives to parlay its technological prowess to develop to be a man-made intelligence “superpower”, the Defence Ministry director-general talked about on Monday, predicting advances in autonomous warfare and streamlined struggle decision-making.

Steps to harness speedy AI evolution embrace the formation of a loyal organisation for military robotics inside the ministry, and a record-high funds for related evaluation and enchancment this 12 months, retired navy frequent Eyal Zamir talked about.

“There are those who see AI as the next revolution in changing the face of warfare in the battlefield,” Zamir instructed the Herzliya Conference, an annual worldwide security dialogue board.

He named GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) and AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) as deep-learning realms being addressed by civilian AI industries which can finally have military functions.

These, Zamir talked about, doubtlessly embrace “the ability of platforms to strike in swarms, or of combat systems to operate independently, of data fusion and of assistance in fast decision-making, on a scale greater than we have ever seen”.

The ministry declined to produce figures on AI funding.

The Israeli military has lifted the veil on a couple of of autonmous applications already deployed. In 2021, it talked about robotic surveillance jeeps would help patrol the Gaza Strip border.

This month, state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries unveiled an autonmous intelligence-gathering submarine which, it talked about, had already achieved “thousands of hours” of operations.

Eyal credited Israel’s achievements in cyber warfare – broadly believed to have been utilized in opposition to Iranian nuclear companies – to “a correct and timely discerning of the defence, economic, national and international dimensions”.

Similary, he talked about, “our mission is to turn the State of Israel into an AI superpower and to be at the head of a very limited number of world powers that are in this club”.