NATO Launches AI Strategy and $1 Billion Fund As Defense Race Heats Up (venturebeat.com) 15
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the military alliance of 30 countries that border the North Atlantic Ocean, this week announced that it would adopt its first AI strategy and launch a "future-proofing" fund with the goal of investing around $1 billion. VentureBeat reports: Military.com reports that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will join other NATO members in Brussels, Belgium, the alliance's headquarters, to formally approve the plans over two days of talks. Speaking at a news conference, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the effort was in response to "authoritarian regimes racing to develop new technologies." NATO's AI strategy will cover areas including data analysis, imagery, cyberdefense, he added.
NATO's overtures come after a senior cybersecurity official at the Pentagon resigned in protest because of the slow pace of technological development at the department. Speaking to the press last week, Nicolas Chaillan, former chief software officer at the Air Force, said that the U.S. has "no competing fighting chance against China" in 15 to 20 years, characterizing the AI and cyber defenses in some government agencies as being at "kindergarten level."
NATO's overtures come after a senior cybersecurity official at the Pentagon resigned in protest because of the slow pace of technological development at the department. Speaking to the press last week, Nicolas Chaillan, former chief software officer at the Air Force, said that the U.S. has "no competing fighting chance against China" in 15 to 20 years, characterizing the AI and cyber defenses in some government agencies as being at "kindergarten level."
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It can't feed anybody if an autocratic regime limits the distribution of food.
Make War Not Food. (Score:2)
It's almost as if no one is paying attention.
Economic disadvantage (Score:2, Troll)
Have to wonder how those who oppose the US military having decent AI capability reconcile their views with the knowledge that China will inevitably have it.
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No, they use financing. So when war does come, all those countries they poured money into from the belt and road project, will join them.
New Cold War (Score:3)
Going forward we should continue working to not be on the side trying to keep up.
Authoritarian Regimes (Score:2)
Offence Race (Score:1)
The US has many times as military bases just in Germany than Russia and China do combined in the world. It's not Russia or China spending more on war and empire than the rest of the planet combined, that would be the US. It's not China practicing provocative war games with Russia in the Gulf of Mexico for a practice invasion of the US, that's what the US does to other countries.
Jullian Assange called this bullshit for what it was a decade ago on the Afghanistan occupation: the "defense industry" is nothing