To China's War Planners, AI is Just Another Thing to Deceive

New America Strategist Peter W. Singer wrote with Tye Graham in Defense One on China's use of AI for deception in war:

Under the banner of “counter-AI warfare”, the People’s Liberation Army is teaching troops to fight the model as much as the soldier. Forces are learning to alter how vehicles appear to cameras, radar, and heat sensors so the AI misidentifies them, to feed junk or poisoned data into an opponent’s pipeline, and to swamp battlefield computers with noise. Leaders are drilling their own teams to spot when their own machines are wrong. The goal is simple: make an enemy’s military AI chase phantoms and miss the real threat. 

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