Can artificial intelligence (AI) reduce the need for common weapons standards, doctrines, and processes?
Coalition warfare has always been messy. Different procedures, systems, standards, doctrines, and operational caveats complicate and slow coordination at every level of conflict. AI may finally cut through that dynamic to become the connective tissue that makes multinational forces more cohesive and coherent.
This makes sense. I've noted that AI could help make even obsolete weapons more effective within a campaign by maximizing their capabilities for specific missions.
Yet having standardized physical weapons, doctrines, and processes still seems vital. I'd want AI to cope with the differences that creep in despite the common standards rather than let coalition members go wild on their own private Idahos.
And I'd want AI to manage updates to adapt to a changing wartime battlefield without breaking standardization--which the article addresses with its call to make software rather than hardware the realm for updates.
And AI really seems valuable in filtering information flows so that company commanders aren't overwhelmed with irrelevant data that makes them incapable of operating as higher echelons intend.
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