By Stew Magnuson
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford —during a wide-ranging interview at the Halifax International Security Forum — took Google to describe of piece of occupation for its recent conclusion to take away from a Defense Department artificial tidings initiative. “I cause got a hard fourth dimension amongst companies that are working real hard to engage inwards the marketplace position within of China, too engaging inwards projects where intellectual belongings is shared amongst the Chinese, which is synonymous amongst sharing it amongst the Chinese military, too and therefore don't desire to move for the United States of America military,” he said Nov. 17.
Dunford said he did non desire to unmarried out whatsoever specific company, but had been asked past times an interviewer specifically most Google’s conclusion non to proceed working amongst the Pentagon on its Project Maven AI first afterwards a larger release of its employees objected to the computer program on moral grounds.
“We are the expert guys, the people sitting inwards this room that represent democracy, nosotros are the expert guys too they should know that,” Dunford said.
“This is non most doing something that's unethical, illegal, or immoral. This is most ensuring that nosotros collectively tin defend the values for which nosotros stand. And that would survive the declaration I would brand to the tech companies,” he added.
Dunford said the military machine needs high-tech companies. Historically, the nation’s industrial base of operations too its human majuscule cause got given the armed forces a competitive advantage.
“Quite frankly, nosotros demand a reliable, effective partnership amongst the tech companies within the United States of America — too for that affair inwards all the countries that cause got democracies — to ensure that nosotros tin protect democracy,” he said.
Meanwhile, Dunford sees that competitive payoff eroding. Responding to a National Defense Strategy Commission study released before inwards the calendar week that suggested the United States of America could lose futurity wars against rivals such every bit Communist People's Republic of China too Russia, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military machine was fine now, but that may non survive the illustration inwards a few curt years.
“Today, nosotros tin encounter our alliance commitments against whatsoever potential adversary, peculiarly if yous await at it from the coalition-alliance perspective. We tin defend the homeland too nosotros cause got a competitive payoff over whatsoever potential adversary,” he said.
But without sustained, predictable funding too a focus on fighting inwards all the domains inwards which the military machine volition survive challenged — land, sea, air, infinite too cyberspace — coming together those commitments volition survive difficult, he said. “Four or 5 or half-dozen years downwardly the road, nosotros volition in all likelihood non cause got the same grade of confidence inwards talking to yous most our powerfulness to encounter alliance commitments.”
However, Dunford stopped curt of maxim the United States of America mightiness lose a war. “It doesn't hateful nosotros would lose, but it for certain could cause got much to a greater extent than fourth dimension than nosotros envisioned.” The armed forces would endure to a greater extent than casualties than it would cause got otherwise, he said.
“If yous await at where nosotros are today, nosotros create cause got a technological payoff over Russian Federation too China,” he added. Yet the 2 nations cause got invested a swell bargain inwards weapon systems that are designed to assault perceived United States of America vulnerabilities. And they did this patch the Pentagon was fighting the global state of war on terrorism too was failing to modernize its weapons, he said.
Congress over the past times 2 years has boosted military machine funding too seat modernization accounts dorsum on a positive trajectory, Dunford noted. But that must survive sustained, he said.
Dunford rejected criticism that the Pentagon was non investing inwards the correct kinds of weapon systems. It volition proceed to laid upwards traditional platforms such every bit ships too airplanes patch trying to keep a residue amongst to a greater extent than modern kinds of warfare engineering scientific discipline similar cyber, he said.
The Defense Department has a listing of xiv primal categories inwards which it is competing amongst Russian Federation too China. That listing is classified, but the items are predictable: cyberspace, electromagnetic spectrum, space, maritime, etc., he said. It looks at where the United States of America military machine too its allies are now, too where their rivals volition survive through most 2025. This is informing where the Pentagon volition invest inwards modernization, he said.
Artificial tidings volition survive a primal engineering scientific discipline driver, he added.
“I'm convinced inwards price of supporting decision-making too and therefore achieving volume inwards price of capability that AI has extraordinary potential. And I create mean value that whoever masters AI is going to cause got a decided competitive advantage,” Dunford said.
The 2020 budget volition see a renewed focus on query too evolution every bit those accounts cause got non been adequately funded, he said. Secretary of Defense James Mattis is holler for that the subdivision “spends an adequate amount of coin on tomorrow,” Dunford noted.
“That's ane of the areas that nosotros frankly assumed lead a opportunity for a long catamenia of time: query too development, scientific discipline too technology,” he said. “Those investments [are the ones] that volition let us to keep an border technologically inwards the future.”
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