Countering Autonomy​/AI Threats




SCI-MSG-ET-067
 

Duration: 01 January 2024 - 01 January 2025

Backg​​​​​​round

Development in the domain of Autonomy/Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly increased pace in the recent years. The range of potential applications for the technology is wide and is not limited to military applications, resulting in large investments by non-defence organizations, development of open-source tools and a democratization of the development. Military use of autonomous systems, which include aerial, ground, surface, and underwater, foster the R&D to increase autonomy/collaboration/interaction in multi-domains/environments/conditions and sensors exploitation. Recent armed conflict demonstrated that those developments are not without impact on the security. Autonomy/AI techniques and technologies will make the threat distance and persistent, and difficult to identify. Our adversaries may not be bound by any legal or ethical limits either.Objecti​ves

​The primary object of the new ET/TG will be the execution of a cold weather trial with radiometric data collections performed at multiple viewing perspectives of a test asset. A successful trial will include the radiometric and spectral imagery of a test asset with a thorough characterization of the atmosphere and environment. A secondary objective of the Group will be the validation of the latest modeling tools through comparisons of the measured data to predictions of the same environment given the measured meteorological conditions. As part of the trial preparation, execution, and review; common practices for IR ship signature rangings/measurements (and / or signature analysis) will be reviewed and formalized.

Topics

​​To understand the threat posed by the development and use of Autonomy/AI, and how can we use the Alliance S&T knowledge base to research and develop specific counter measures or interventions in the kill chain or the supply chain. Scientific objectives cover: - Analysis of actual and future autonomy/AI exploitation, which includes autonomous systems (aerial, ground, surface, underwater, and multi-modality) - Analysis of actual counter measures, which includes soft and hard-kill mitigation solutions. Tracking and threat confirmation (identification) is considered in the mitigation solutions. - Identification of gaps, - Investigation of counter measures solution.

Keywords/Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous System, Autonomy, countermeasures

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