AUGUSTA, Ga. \u2014 Army Cyber Command is training AI agents in various \u201cwork roles\u201d to serve alongside humans to operate at machine speed, according to its commander.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery agent we create is trained in a work role inside the cyber force,\u201d Lt. Gen. Christopher Eubank, commander of ARCYBER, said on Tuesday at the TechNet Augusta conference. \u201cWe\u2019ve created developers, data engineers, host analysts, exploitation analysts. You name the work role, we\u2019re creating those. And then we\u2019re training them to the same standard that humans get trained to. So agents have a work role; they\u2019re JQR [Job Qualification Readiness-approved]. They get trained. They get set on a mission with a human watching and deliver results.\u201d<\/p>\n
When those agents make mistakes, he said, they\u2019re taught the way to do it, and the agent goes back in and retrains itself.<\/p>\n
The work is housed under the command\u2019s Task Force Lexington, a clearing house for all its AI efforts, led by a soon-to-be colonel with a team of around 10 \u201chigh-speed folks,\u201d Eubank added.<\/p>\n
AI agents are performing critical work such as hunting on the network for cyber threat and intrusions, Eubank said. AI tools are also performing cybersecurity service provider risk management framework and Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service. ARCYBER also now has an agentic red team and 17 cyber protection team mission elements focused on the network every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefending and operating the network is definitely a thing that humans are doing right now. We\u2019re doing it at human speed \u2026 But our adversaries are doing it at machine speed and we must catch up and we must get ahead,\u201d Lt. Gen. Jeth Rey, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-6, said during the same panel. \u201cThat\u2019s the reason why that this is important for agentic AI to be leading the way on this effort that we\u2019re doing. Because the network, what we call the weapon system, our warfighting weapon system, is actually the foundation to everything that we do right now. We can\u2019t fire rounds without it, we can\u2019t move people without it, we can\u2019t operate on a daily basis without it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eubank was sure to caution that AI agents are not yet performing work that assumes risk \u2014 a task still reserved for humans.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach and every day, we sit down as a group, we figure out the guardrails we\u2019re going to apply to these agents. We ask ourselves, \u2018Is it risk that a human should be answering, or is it risk that an agent can answer?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cWe have not turned any agents loose to assume risk on their own behalf. But this is a monumental point as we operate, secure, defend, and attack the network.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that there is a \u201cdelicate dance\u201d on balancing risk because the agents move much faster than humans. The agents check in with their human counterparts, who checks the work and send the analytic support officer agent back on task.<\/p>\n
To ensure these engineers within the command are at the top of their game, Eubank said he sent the entire Task Force Lexington to the Defense Innovation Unit recently to sit down with senior engineers to improve their technical expertise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUGUSTA, Ga. \u2014 Army Cyber Command is training AI agents in various \u201cwork roles\u201d to serve alongside humans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[179,24,25,111,1393,151,71494,134],"class_list":["post-146223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-agentic-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-cyber-security","tag-networks","tag-technet-augusta-2026","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}