This shift toward greater autonomy and increased use of AI, under human supervision, is very much grounded in the belief that soldiers are the key enabler when it comes to ultimate command and control and decision-making authority. Human leadership remains increasingly important as the service greatly increases AI, integration. Emil Michael, undersecretary of war for research and engineering and War Department chief technology officer, outlined that AI use increased by roughly 1,420,000 users, a 1,775% increase over the past calendar year. Michael explains that the Department of War uses AI across three layered dimensions, “ the enterprise level, the intelligence level, and the warfighting level, which he described as the most important of the three.”
