The US military might use generative AI systems to rank lists of targets and make recommendations—which would be vetted by humans—about which to strike first, according to a Defense Department official with knowledge of the matter. The disclosure about how the military may use AI chatbots comes as the Pentagon faces scrutiny over a strike on an Iranian school, which it is still investigating.
A list of possible targets might be fed into a generative AI system that the Pentagon is fielding for classified settings. Then, [said an official] … humans might ask the system to analyze the information and prioritize the targets while accounting for factors like where aircraft are currently located. … OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok could, in theory, be the models used for this type of scenario in the future, as both companies recently reached agreements for their models to be used by the Pentagon in classified settings.
The official described this as an example of how things might work but would not confirm or deny whether it represents how AI systems are currently being used.
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