The Pentagon’s Emil Michael credits Ukraine for doing ‘some incredibly creative things’ with its drone technology in the war with Russia.
Michael, who spoke to an audience in Napa, Calif., said the U.S. manufactured about 1,000 drones under the prior administration. Now, the country’s stockpile is up to about 500,000 drones, he said. More than 100 people were killed, including dozens of children .
The U.S. hasn’t released the findings of its investigation into the bombing. Because we just didn’t imagine it, “We weren’t prepared. I just want to make sure we are imagining the next fight. He declined to comment on the U.S. strike in Iran last February that hit a girls’ school, which the U.S. mistook for a military target. Planning for the strike had involved an AI targeting system. “We have to have appropriate human judgment at every level.
The Pentagon’s technology chief said the U.S. had been unprepared for the modern era of drone warfare and is racing to arm its troops with the autonomous systems that have come to dominate conflicts in Europe and the Middle East. “We were caught flat-footed by the drone warfare in Ukraine and Russia,” Emil Michael, the Defense Department’s under secretary for research and engineering, said at the WSJ Tech conference Wednesday. “We helped the Ukrainians a ton, but they invented what they actually needed because we didn’t have it,” Michael said. autonomous systems, the military is still quite conservative with its use of artificial intelligence in fighting wars, Michael said While the Pentagon is pushing into inexpensive. Developing targets currently relies less on AI than intelligence reports, satellite imagery and other human-led investigatory work, he said. “We’re not that sophisticated in doing these kinds of things,” Michael said, referring to AI-generated targets. Period,” Michael said.
