Accession Number:

AD1112351

Title:

A DOD Education Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Research Paper]

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE FELLOWS PROGRAM MAXWELL AFB AL

Personal Author(s):

• Williams, Herbert T. V

Report Date:

2020-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

50

Abstract:

This paper addresses the lack of a strategy to educate officers in the Department of Defense about artificial intelligence AI and provides a recommendation for what such a program should include. The National Defense Strategy and senior military leaders agree that AI will be a key technology for future warfighters. There is little guidance on how to prepare warfighters to use AI and no specific plans to include AI into professional military education. This paper will describe why the Department of Defense DOD needs an education strategy and what it should include. It notes that Congress mandated DOD create an AI strategy to cover nine topics including AI design, software coding, military applications for AI, and AI decision-making, among others. Congress did not dictate, however, who should receive this education. The paper recommends options for educating the workforce about AI now and adapting joint professional military education to include AI across the continuum of learning. The conclusion is that by implementing these solutions, the DOD can help maintain both a cognitive and technological edge over adversaries with AI technologies.

Descriptors:

• students
• personnel management
• warfare
• autonomous weapons
• doctrine
• neural networks
• military applications
• national security
• artificial intelligence
• computer languages
• employment
• military education
• military training
• lessons learned
• logistics
• machine learning
• military personnel
• computer programming
• computers
• deployment

Subject Categories:

• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]