U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (R) walks with Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Robert Cardillo (L) and Deputy Director Susan Gordon during a visit for a town hall in Springfield, Virginia, U.S., August 2, 2017. U.S. Army Sgt. Amber Smith/Department of Defense via REUTERS
WASHINGTON: The US military is increasing spending on a secret research effort to use artificial intelligence to help anticipate the launch of a nuclear-capable missile, as well as track and target mobile launchers in North Korea and elsewhere.
The effort has gone largely unreported, and the few publicly available details about it are buried under a layer of near impenetrable jargon in the latest Pentagon budget. But US officials familiar with the research told Reuters there are multiple classified programmes now under way to explore how to develop AI-driven systems to better protect the United States against a potential nuclear missile strike.
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