China sees artificial intelligence (AI) as one more thing to fool.
AI does not necessarily speed up and improve battle. China will seek its weaknesses:
Under the banner of “counter-AI warfare”, the People’s Liberation Army is teaching troops to fight the model as much as the soldier. Forces are learning to alter how vehicles appear to cameras, radar, and heat sensors so the AI misidentifies them, to feed junk or poisoned data into an opponent’s pipeline, and to swamp battlefield computers with noise. Leaders are drilling their own teams to spot when their own machines are wrong. The goal is simple: make an enemy’s military AI chase phantoms and miss the real threat.
The PLA conceives its counter-AI playbook as a triad that targets data, algorithms, and computing power. In May, PLA Daily described the concept in its Intelligentized Warfare Panorama series. It argued that the most reliable way to “break intelligence” is to hit all three at once.
China is preaching to the TDR choir:
If large language model AI is just "probabilistically linking words and sentences together without considering meaning" then at best this is giving conventional wisdom the AI stamp of approval.
When I contemplated inserting AI into command and control when it is corrupted by enemies, I wrote:
The speed of FUBAR could be simply awesome.But even a working AI as it is now constituted can produce poor plans incredibly faster than even idiot humans.
AI is not a silver bullet. We need a separate AI "commissar" that watches what the Battle AI is doing to provide a reality check on our AI plan generation and battlefield analysis.
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