People are responding to something. NATO announced on June 30 that it is creating a $1 billion innovation fund that will invest in early-stage startups and venture capital funds developing "priority" technologies such as artificial intelligence.
Since the start of the war, the UK has launched a new Artificial Intelligence strategy for defense, and the Germans have allocated half a billion dollars for research and artificial intelligence.
The author of the book I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict says that war is a catalyst for change.
The war in Ukranian has made the drive to push more artificial intelligence onto the battlefield more urgent. The startups with the most to gain are the ones that are trying to cash in as the militaries race to update their arsenals. The ethical concerns over the use of artificial intelligence in warfare have become more urgent as the technology becomes more and more advanced, while the prospect of restrictions and regulations governing its use looks as distant as ever.
Tech and the military had a rocky relationship. After employee protests and outrage, Google pulled out of the Pentagon's project to build image recognition systems to improve drone strikes. There was a lot of debate about the morality of developing artificial intelligence for weapons.
Yoshua Bengio, a winner of the Turing Prize, and others pledged not to work on lethal artificial intelligence.
Silicon Valley is close to the world's militaries than ever before. According to Yll Bajraktari, the former executive director of the US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, start-ups are finally getting a look in.
There are companies that sell military artificial intelligence. It can help with everything from the mundane to the lethal, from screening résumés to processing data from satellites or recognizing patterns in data to help soldiers make quicker decisions. It is possible to identify targets using image recognition software. For example, drones can be used to help soldiers deliver supplies more safely than is possible by land.
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