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Army General Says He's Using AI To Improve 'Decision-Making' (arstechnica.com)

(Friday October 17, 2025 @11:20AM (msmash) from the how-about-that dept.)


Maj. Gen. William Taylor told reporters at the Association of the US Army Conference in Washington this week that he and the Eighth Army he commands out of South Korea are [1]regularly using AI for decision-making . Taylor said he has been asking AI chatbots to help build models for personal decisions that affect his organization and overall readiness. The general referred to his chatbot companion as "Chat" and said the technology has been useful for predictive analysis in logistical planning and operational purposes.



[1] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/army-general-says-hes-using-ai-to-improve-decision-making/


list games (Score:4, Insightful)

by Joe_Dragon ( 2206452 )

list games

Skipping the fundamentals destroys the future (Score:2)

by shanen ( 462549 )

FP appears to be a pointless win of the FP race. Care to explain what you [Joe Dragon] meant? Or maybe it would be more appropriate if you addressed your motivations? [Actually, on rereading it about five times I think it was intended as a joke. If so, you should have specified "war games".]

But without knowing what you mean, I am still sure that my perspective on the topic is different. Most of my career was spent in fields where AI is sure already having a huge impact and that impact is growing rapidly: Pr

Language model is not logic model (Score:2)

by Zagnar ( 722415 )

Using a language model to make important military decisions?

That'll work out well.

Re: (Score:3)

by sinij ( 911942 )

What are you talking about? Efficiency and deadliness of cavalry charges improved by more than 50%!

Re: (Score:1)

by olsmeister ( 1488789 )

I have no real problem with a LLM doing the grunt work, as long as the final result is reviewed by human eyeballs. That always needs to be a link in this chain.

Oh you sweet innocent child (Score:2)

by ebunga ( 95613 )

That's not what's happening. That's never what happens. Any time someone uses an ai chat bot as part of their work, they immediately turn into drooling idiots. "So I asked ChatGPT for some numbers and this is what it gave me." Sometimes they'll ask it for citations, it makes up some citations. They never check that the data or citations are valid. Their perfect AI god gave them perfect numbers. The computer is always correct.

Re: Language model is not logic model (Score:1)

by PoopMelon ( 10494390 )

Yeah, just like the genocide in gaza

This gives new meaning... (Score:2)

by joshuark ( 6549270 )

This gives new meaning to the classic oxymoron "Army intelligence."

--JoshK.

Make it a game... with classified intel. (Score:3)

by irving47 ( 73147 )

A couple years ago, one of the base security officers in charge of making sure all his SP's/MP's/security guys/whatevers knew where everything (classified) was and how to get there fast... Including the big boys... aka nukes. So naturally to make it fun and interactive to stimulate learning, he dumped all the questions (and answers) into Kahoot, the Norwegian online trivia engine. (Or one similar to it).

My way of saying I'm a little wary of some of these officers using this stuff.

So Generals (Score:2)

by Inglix the Mad ( 576601 )

Can go alongside CEO's, CFO's, CIO's, and a few dozen other top end jobs that we can fire people from to save money.

<Deek> That reminds me, we'll need to buy a chainsaw for the office. "In
case of emergency, break glass"