“How The Military Wants AI To Help Control America’s Nuclear Arsenal”
March 11th, 2025I love it:
“We do not have, you know, a WOPR in STRATCOM headquarters. Nor would we ever have a WOPR in STRATCOM headquarters.”
Via: The War Zone:
While it has long been a world-ending threat in science fiction, U.S. Air Force and Space Force officials see artificial intelligence (AI) playing important, if not critical roles in the command and control enterprise at the heart of America’s nuclear deterrent capabilities.
AI has the potential to help speed up decision making cycles and ensure that orders get where they need to go as fast and securely as possible. It could also be used to assist personnel charged with other duties from intelligence processing to managing maintenance and logistics. The same officials stress that humans will always need to be in or at least on the loop, and that a machine alone will never be in a position to decide to employ nuclear weapons.
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“You know, in WarGames, it has this machine called the WOPR [War Operation Plan Response, pronounced ‘whopper’]. So, the WOPR actually was that AI machine that everyone is scared about. And guess what? We do not have, you know, a WOPR in STRATCOM headquarters. Nor would we ever have a WOPR in STRATCOM headquarters,” Cotton added. “That’s not what I’m talking about. What I’m talking about is, how do I, you know, how do I get and become efficient on ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] products, you know? How do I get, you know, efficient on understanding what’s the status of my forces? You know, those are things that AI and machine learning can absolutely help us [with] and really shave a lot of time off on being able to do those type of things.”
Sorry, Dave. Your speech is not convincing anyone. You are excess to our needs. Thank you for your service. *Poof*