Exploring the Civil-Military Divide over Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is anticipated to be a key capability for enabling the U.S. military to maintain its military dominance. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)'s engagement with leading high-tech private sector corporations, for whom the military is a relatively small percentage of their customer base, provides a valuable conduit to cutting-edge AI-enabled capabilities and access to leading AI software developers and engineers. This study conducted a survey of software developers at leading technology corporations to learn their views toward the U.S. defense community and their willingness to contribute to AI-related projects for DoD.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 12, 2022
Accession Number
AD1168543

Entities

People

  • Christopher Ferris
  • Eric Landree
  • James Ryseff
  • Madhumita Ghosh-dastidar
  • Max Izenberg
  • Melissa A. Bradley
  • Noah Johnson
  • Sydne Newsberry

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Administration
  • Climate Change
  • Computer Science
  • Demography
  • Employment
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Applications
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Regression Analysis
  • Social Media
  • Software Development
  • Supply Chain
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy