| | MAY 20188CIOReviewArtificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more influential in our everyday lives, dictating what news we see in our social media feeds, transforming how we commute to work, and even improving the odds of early disease detection. While the benefits of AI have been covered thoroughly, so have the potential negative consequences. Algorithm bias, changing employment landscape, and even the collapse of society at the hands of autonomous systems have been and continue to be debated.These are important issues, but they are missing a key component. The cascading effects of the AI revolution and how it affects our world depends largely on how well AI and humans learn to work together.The Department of Defense recognizes this and is at the forefront of the conversation around how to develop effective, well-functioning teams composed of humans, AI, and robots. In the recently released National Defense Strategy, Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Mattis highlighted the need to prioritize technological superiority of the United States armed forces over current and potential rivals. An area highlighted explicitly was autonomous systems, at the core of which is artificial intelligence:"The Department will invest broadly in military application of autonomy, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, including rapid application of commercial breakthroughs, to gain competitive military advantages." Critically, the NDS goes on to call for "anticipating the implications of new technologies on the battlefield." The battlefield is a key place where artificial intelligence will come into contact with the chaos of the real world, with the lives of military personnel on the line. These battlefield units will have different dynamics than either teams of humans or teams of autonomous systems. In order to operate at a high level, they will still require the fundamental components that make an effective team: trust, communication, shared goals. In other words, we are no longer talking about how to best optimize a machine for human use, but instead how to design a team of both machines and humans to advance a particular mission.ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMANS NEED TO WORK TOGETHER.By Nadya Bliss, Director, Global Security Initiative, Arizona State University
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