The Economist, one of the world’s largest independent media, published an article that described how Ukraine is using AI technology to fight its enemy in the war.
Key Messages from the article:
- Ukraine, outgunned by Russia, is increasingly seeking an edge with AI by employing the technology in diverse ways. A Ukrainian colonel involved in arms development says drone designers commonly query Chatgpt as a “start point” for engineering ideas, like novel techniques for reducing vulnerability to Russian jamming.
- Another military use for AI, says the colonel, who requested anonymity, is to identify targets.
- The use of AI has been developing for some time. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, called for the development of a massive boost in the use of the technology for national security in November 2019.
- By ingesting reams of images and text, however,
- AI models can find potential clues, stitch them together and then surmise the likely location of a weapons system or a troop formation.
- SemanticForce, a firm with offices in Kyiv and Ternopil, a city in the west of Ukraine, develops models that in response to text prompts scrutinises online or uploaded text and images.
- The use of AI helps Ukraine’s spycatchers identify people who Oleksiy Danilov, until recently secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (nsdc), describes as “prone to betrayal”.
- Using AI from Palantir, an American firm, Ukrainian counter-intelligence fishes for illuminating linkages in disparate pools of data.
