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Army

AFC Chief ‘All In’ On AI, But Says Letting It Make Decisions Would Be ‘Disastrous Mistake’

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, August 17th, 2023

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AFC Chief ‘All In’ On AI, But Says Letting It Make Decisions Would Be ‘Disastrous Mistake’

Gen James E. Rainey accepts the position of Commanding General for Army Futures Command on October 4th, 2022 in Austin, TX (US Army Photo by Patrick Hunter)

The head of the Army’s modernization-focused Futures Command said Thursday he’s “all in” on artificial intelligence’s potential ability to help inform commanders’ decisions, while cautioning that allowing the technology itself to make decisions “would be a disastrous mistake.” “So when I get asked about things like AI, machine learning [and] quantum, I’m all in. I mean whoever figures that out is going to have an incredible, marked advantage, akin to like the nuclear arms race, space race. It’s that big…

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