greater role<\/a> as well in the military\u2019s use of space and cyberspace, said Malcolm Davis, a senior analyst for defense strategy and national security with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. In space, he said, it can manage \u201ccomplex orbital operations,\u201d while in cyberspace it can plan and conduct operations against critical information infrastructure.<\/p>\nThe military\u2019s ability to use AI at machine speed would potentially let it exploit a faster \u201cobserve-orient-decide-act\u201d loop compared to purely human-controlled systems, Davis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s something that\u2019s being demonstrated by the U.S. and Israel now in operational planning in the Iran war, where AI is playing a key role in identifying targets and planning mission packages,\u201d the Canberra-based analyst said. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason that the PLA won\u2019t learn from that and utilize a similar capability.\u201d<\/p>\n
A testament to AI\u2019s reach throughout the military, a March 26 PLA Daily report notes its use in battlefield perception, intelligent decision support and autonomous control systems.<\/p>\n
PLA leaders particularly value AI decision-making because most of their people lack battlefield experience, unlike American counterparts, said Sam Bresnick, a research fellow with the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. <\/p>\n
He said its priorities include layering AI on top of computer networks, gathering volumes of data and the autonomy of unmanned systems such as uncrewed underwater vehicles.<\/p>\n
Chinese officials want to surpass the U.S. in military AI use, Bresnick noted, but the government today fears information that AI could use or generate. \u201cThe data could go against Xi Jinping and Communist Party ideals,\u201d he said. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to lose control over it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The U.S. armed forces now have a \u201ccommanding\u201d AI lead over China, the Modern War Institute at West Point said in a March 17 study.<\/p>\n
It says the United States has more than 4,000 data centers versus some 400 in China. Four-year-old U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors shipped to China limit Beijing\u2019s access to AI-related hardware, the study adds.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina\u2019s publicly stated position is considerably more cautious and more hedged than is commonly assumed in Western coverage,\u201d Yi said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe PLA lacks the volume of real operational data that the U.S. military has accumulated over decades of expeditionary warfare, and there are unresolved doctrinal tensions between the decentralized decision-making that effective AI-enabled operations require and the PLA\u2019s deeply embedded centralized command culture,\u201d said Yi of the Schwarzman College.<\/p>\n
China may have surpassed the United States in AI for drone swarms, however, said Chen Yi-fan, assistant professor in the Diplomacy and International Relations Department at Tamkang University in Taiwan.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the addition of drone carriers already in service, the PLA has taken the lead over the U.S. military in this category of AI military applications,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Qinzhou frigate was commissioned last year and did a combat drill in the South China Sea, where Beijing disputes maritime sovereignty with five other governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan \u2014 The Chinese navy is enhancing its guided-missile frigate, the Qinzhou, with an artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,387,393,391,392,394,386,389,388,390],"class_list":{"0":"post-242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-circulated-c4isrnet","12":"tag-circulated-defense-news","13":"tag-circulated-military-times","14":"tag-defense-news","15":"tag-dn-dnr","16":"tag-naval","17":"tag-pentagon","18":"tag-taiwan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}