The United States has developed and deployed Artificial Intelligence on the battlefield, as demonstrated in the Iran war, but there’s one enormous leap in the technology that would threaten the United States.

‘AI warfare is here, and it’s expanding, and I don’t think that that’s going away. If anything, I think it’s getting bigger and more strong,’ Wynton Hall, the author of the New York Times best selling book ‘Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI’.

The military has used AI tools such as Anthropic’s Claude for real-time targeting into Palantir’s Maven system – which speeds up military decision-making.

The military’s use of mass pattern recognition, Hall said, was already helping cut the long hours of human intelligence resources.

But the development that would significantly impact the digital battlefield would be the concept of RSI, recursive self-improvement.

Currently, most AI models rely on large language models (LLMs) that generate text on externally trained datasets. The development of an RSI model would do it on its own, without human intervention.

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