Reference News Network December 24 report: According to the website of "El Mundo" on December 23, artificial intelligence has conquered our smartphones and is now moving into another field: the military field. The U.S. Department of War has announced a partnership with xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, this week.
According to the agreement, by early 2026, the Grok series models from xAI will be used in systems accessible to more than 3 million military and civilian personnel, and will be integrated into the Department of War's AI platform called GenAI.mil.
Specifically, Grok will be used for two types of tasks: first, the routine tasks of such AI assistants, such as internal searches, document writing and formatting, manual summaries, list generation, and other office tasks.
Secondly, what is truly attention-grabbing is that Grok will also be used to support military operations, including the rapid analysis of tactical data such as videos and images, as well as risk assessments for operational planning.
Grok will be available for "critical mission use cases" in frontline military operations, aiming to "enhance decision-making speed, security, and advantage."
The agreement also allows the Pentagon to access the social media platform X in real time to "enhance situational awareness."
In this way, the U.S. military will gain an "information advantage" from various scenarios and operations that require real-time access to social media information.
Perhaps anticipating possible criticism, the Pentagon has promised that Grok's tools will only be used to process unclassified information, because AI models may learn from the data provided by users. (Translation/Su Jiawei)
Original: toutiao.com/article/7587331359631311410/
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