Pentagon AI chief says US allies lack the resources to keep pace
The Pentagon’s most senior artificial intelligence official has said publicly what allied defence ministries have been hearing privately for the past two years: they do not have the same resources as the US, and they are unlikely to catch up anytime soon.
Cameron Stanley, the Department of War’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, made the comments at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington on Wednesday.
The remarks were reported by the Guardian and Inside AI News, which quoted Stanley directly.
“They don’t have the resources that we do, they don’t have the experience that we do, they don’t have the scale that we do,” Stanley said.
Stanley was referring to NATO members and the Five Eyes intelligence partners, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
He said his office is helping these countries avoid some of the mistakes the Pentagon made while developing its own AI capabilities.
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