The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems

It is a comprehensive reform of a administration that has not been placed within 40 years directly on the cutting block. Below, how will defense technology companies today, which strengthened close connections to the Trump administration, and why the safety test may suffer as a result.

Messi Kamings, a former American naval fighter pilot who is now a professor of engineering and computer science at George Mason University, says the test and operating evaluation office is “the last gate before technology arrives in the field.” Although the army can conduct small experiments with new systems without operating them by the office, it must test anything that is widely inserted.

In one way – so far – everyone saw that he is working on help Reduce She says, “Waste, fraud and abuse.” This is because it provides an independent examination of companies and contractors’ claims about the success of their technology. It also aims to expose the systems to the toughest safety test.

The charges are especially a pivotal time for Amnesty International and Military Advance: The Pentagon experiences the status of artificial intelligence in everything, and major companies such as Openai are now more comfortable working with the army, and defense giants such as Anduril wins large contracts to launch artificial intelligence systems (last Thursday, Anduril announced a 2.5 billion dollar financing round, doubling its evaluation of more than $ 30 billion).

Higseth claims that his discounts “make the test and inform weapons more efficient”, and save $ 300 million. But Cummings are concerned that they are a way to adopt faster while increasing the chances that new systems will not be safe or effective as they promised. “The shooting in Dote sends a clear message that all the obstacles to the companies that Trump prefers will be removed,” she says.

Andoril and Anthropor, who launched artificial intelligence applications for military use, did not answer my questions about whether they had pushed or agreed to wounds. A representative of Openai said that the company did not participate in the pressure for restructuring.

“Discounts make me tense,” Mark Kansian, the first adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that previously worked in the Pentagon in cooperation with the test office, says. “It is not that we will move from effective to ineffective, but you may not pick up some problems that will appear in the fighting without this test step.”

It is difficult to say specifically how the discounts will affect the office’s ability to test the systems, and Kansian admits that those responsible for obtaining new technologies to the battlefield sometimes complain that it can slow down. But still, he says, the office frequently reveals the errors that have not been arrested before.