US Department of Defence To Use AI Agents To Simulate War

The Defence Innovation Unit has awarded a contract to Scale AI for this purpose.

The collaboration includes the development of Thunderforge, an AI platform designed to improve decision-making on the battlefield.

This is the Defense Ministry's first attempt to integrate AI agents into military processes to assist commanders-in-chief, Scale AI said in an announcement.

The project is planned in collaboration with Anduril and Microsoft. The former will implement large language models (LLMs) from Scale AI into its Lattice simulation infrastructure to improve mission planning. Bill Gates' corporation will provide state-of-the-art LLM technology to create an ”advanced multimodal solution.”

Thunderforge will first launch as part of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and the U.S. European Command. 

Recall, in January, OpenAI entered into an agreement with the US National Laboratories to apply the startup's AI models in nuclear weapons research. 

Earlier, Meta opened its technology to government agencies and defense contractors of the US and allies. It was followed by Anthropic.