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Integrating Data Across Classification Levels A Challenge For AI

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020

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Integrating Data Across Classification Levels A Challenge For AI

Soldier in glasses of virtual reality. The concept of the future.

Integrating data across classification levels is the biggest challenge for the effective employment of artificial intelligence (AI) for U.S. military forces in the field, according to a new paper for the Modern War Institute at West Point by Tufts University Prof. Richard Shultz and United States Special Operations Commander Army Gen. Richard Clarke. "Every step of the [data handling] process required direct human interaction," per the paper, Big Data at War: Special Operations Forces, Project Maven, and 21st Century Warfare…

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