A pair of chief information officers for Pentagon organizations argued for a more practical approach to artificial intelligence focused on things like streamlining organizational tasks across the Defense Department.
As the Defense Department engages commercial entities to speed innovation, cultural and structural differences between government and the private sector continue to be the biggest hurdle to rapidly deploying new technology, the head of Air Force Futures told the influential Defense Innovation Board at a ...
Former Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen, and Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman were among the seven new members of the Defense Innovation Board introduced Oct. 17, as the influential civilian advisory board held ...
Artificial intelligence could bring about “biological conflict," said former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who co-chaired the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. AI’s applicability to biological warfare is “something which we don’t talk about very much,” Schmidt told defense reporters, but it poses grave ...
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and former chair of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board, delivered a keynote address at the AFA Warfare Symposium followed by a conversation with retired Lt. Gen. Bruce ”Orville” Wright, president of the Air Force Association. Watch the video or read ...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has nominated former New York mayor and media magnate Michael R. Bloomberg to be the chair of the Defense Innovation Board, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby announced. At the same time, he announced that Austin had approved ...
As the first anniversary approaches of Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III’s unprecedented purge of civilian advisory boards, at least a dozen boards are still in limbo. A few of the boards whose fates still haven’t been announced include the Defense Innovation Board, the Department of ...
The Pentagon could know within about a week how many volunteer civilian advisers had their terms abruptly concluded by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III effective Feb. 16, including a list of names. Austin cleared out an “several hundred” volunteer seats on the Pentagon’s 42-plus ...
Think of the Defense Department’s new list of Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence as a starting framework to help guide the thinking of people who will ultimately make the hard decisions: what’s right or wrong, then how to teach a machine to tell the difference. ...