Artificial intelligence at the service of War

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When talking about intelligence, there is an invisible line that, when crossed, completely changes the weight of this technology and that line has just been crossed, because the United States Department of Defense announced that it will begin to integrate Grok, the artificial intelligence jetbot developed by Musk's X, directly into North American military networks, including classified systems.

The announcement was made by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during a speech at the SpaceX headquarters in Texas. According to him, the objective is clear, to bring the world's most advanced models to all layers of the Pentagon, both in unclassified environments and in secret systems.

In other words, artificial intelligence stops being a peripheral support and becomes part of the operational core of the armed forces. This decision is part of a new AI acceleration strategy within the Department of Defense.

The central point of this expansion is in the data.

Pete Hegseth made it clear that the effectiveness of data depends directly on the volume and availability of information, which is why the Pentagon's Office of Artificial and Digital Intelligence was given authority to force the openness and integration of data into federated systems and broadcast platforms.

For the Department of Defense, artificial intelligence without expanded access to data simply does not work, the climax of this story comes when looking at the global concept, while Grok is integrated into classified military systems in the United States, the Jetbot faces a growing wave of criticism outside the country. Users have been exploiting system flaws to generate violent images and explicit deep fakes without consent, leading to emergency restrictions on their image generation tools.

The international reaction was rapid, Indonesia temporarily blocked access to Grok, Malaysia adopted a similar measure in the United Kingdom, OFCON opened a formal investigation into the use of the system to manipulate images, that is, while civilian governments try to contain risks, the Pentagon accelerates adoption, Pete Hegseth made this difference in approach clear. He stated that military artificial intelligence will not follow the same restrictions imposed on civilian systems.

According to him, models that do not allow war do not meet the needs of national defense, here artificial intelligence does not need to ask permission to make mistakes because the error may be part of the strategy.