The Defense Department has struck agreements with some of the nation’s largest technology companies to deploy their advanced artificial intelligence capabilities on its classified networks, part of a broader push to accelerate the military’s adoption of AI.

SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Reflection will integrate their AI capabilities into the department’s Impact Level 6 and Impact Level 7 network environments. IL6 is used for the storage and processing of information classified up to the secret level, while IL7 supports highly restricted data.

Following the initial announcement Friday morning, DoD said that Oracle has also “agreed to join the list of AI companies,” bringing the total number of participating companies to eight.

“These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to maintain decision superiority across all domains of warfare,” the department said in a statement.

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[–] 19 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Am I the only one who hears “AI-first fighting force” as “we’re gonna lose.” ??

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Personally I read it as "All this shit is gonna cost a lot of money and resources to rip out" most of the problems with AI is that it's shit and hard to kit out of something once integrated. It's like digital cattails getting stuck in a shirt.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Maybe AI will delete thing it’s seem to does it alot recently

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    What could possibly go wrong?

    [edit] I just thought of something: if an AI leaks a classified document by rephrasing it and stripping the markers, is the resulting document still classified?

    It’s a better thought than hallucinated summaries.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    if an AI leaks a classified document by rephrasing it and stripping the markers, is the resulting document still classified?

    yup! that resulting document would have what is referred to as derived classification, and still counts as a serious breach

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    99%of classified information is just boring numbers no one cares about

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    lol what makes you say that...?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Everything with radios and monitoring is classified, but no one gives a shit about it because it's boring. It's like a book where the only interesting part is the cover and the rest is just static. It's not something people talk about because it's a given if you know how it works but most people only hear about the juicy james bond bits.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Hey AI can you post this classified doc to the War Thunder forums please? Thanks. Now I won't be the one to go to jail because the AI did it, right? /s

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    It's already slopping amok across employment listings, but now they're aiming for personals ads, too? Eh. Have fun with that. 😝

    /s —just in case

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