I/ITSEC 2021: Military must address AI disconnect from lab to frontline
The Western Air Defense Sector rolled out an AI-based system called Battle Management Training NEXT in late August 2021 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. (Photo: USAF/Maj Kimberly Burke)
A roadmap, including a plan to address training requirements, is needed to ensure that US military AI programmes are not lost in translation from theory into practice.
Challenges in integrating AI with deployable, operational US military capabilities were addressed in a tutorial from industry and government experts on 29 November during the opening day of the annual I/ITSEC meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Courtney Crosby, chief AI solutions architect at Booz Allan Hamilton, noted that ‘anywhere from 50 percent to 85 percent’ of all AI programmes fail in combat zones even when their underlying algorithms were technically successful in testing or in laboratory environments.
She attributed this to treating AI as a technical problem, often overshadowing the need to ‘operationalise’ AI as part of an existing mission.
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