Research investigates how visual ‘noise’ patches deceive AI, causing fatal misidentifications. The Pentagon is working to address vulnerabilities in its AI systems that could be exploited by attackers using visual tricks or manipulated signals. Their research programme, Guaranteeing AI Robustness Against Deception (GARD), has been investigating these “adversarial attacks” since 2022. Researchers have shown how …
It’s hard to overstate the level of hype currently surrounding military drones. Just in the past week, former senior US military commanders have penned commentaries comparing drones, in terms of their revolutionary potential, to the development of the phalanx formation that helped make Alexander the Great’s conquest possible, and suggesting they may make the US …
Illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek Businessweek | The Big Take US military operators started out skeptical about AI, but now they are the ones developing and using Project Maven to identify targets on the battlefield. February 28, 2024, 7:00 PM UTC US military operators started out skeptical about AI, but now they are the …
Forget about “Connecting the Dots.” The Next Impending Attack is Staring Us in the Face. Shutterstock | Pixels Hunter In the years immediately following 9/11, we scrambled to figure out what went wrong, and ultimately coined an expression “connect the dots” to describe what we were unable to see before the attacks. Connecting the dots …
Ursa Major founder and CEO Joe Laurienti with a liquid-fueled rocket engine. Ursa Major When the Pentagon asked Ursa Major in 2021 if it would be interested in developing solid-fuel rocket motors for missiles, founder and CEO Joe Laurienti didn’t feel in any rush. The Colorado-based startup believed it had plenty of opportunity producing liquid-fuel …
The Business of the Space Force Santa Maria Times In a striking departure from conventional military doctrines, the Space Force’s newly-appointed four-star Chief of Space Operations (CSO) recently made a groundbreaking distinction from its five sister services, a breakthrough that went largely unnoticed. “Our goal is perpetual competition,” declared General Saltzman, making one of the …