I saw a clip of a guy saying that Ukraine is going through a command reform:
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Military officials will be forced to adapt or leave.
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Military command will be highly “streamlined” and “automated” with “new technology.”
The video was claiming this as a huge win and that Russia would be outdated by comparison and that military personnel, infrantry and such, would be treated more humanely.
However, what it sounds like to me, what I’m hearing instead of those claims, is that all military power and authority is being centralized and that ChatGPT or Grok or some shit is being given reigns of a fucking drone swarm. Is that what is happening? Two things I can say quite confidently is that: consolidating such power such that less total people have any say in matters has never lead to more humane treatment, historically, and that AI chatbots have never shown any capacity for morality nor hesitation in regards to the sanctity of human life and nature.
Is the Trump admin pushing this bullshit on Ukraine? Am I reading too much into this? I’m naturally very skeptical of things like this.
EDIT: I’m pretty sure the video I saw was just some AI Techbro bullshitting and in reference to changes from Brigades (smaller departments) to Corps (big offices managing their own small departments) structure. Nobody can really find info on what he was talking about, AFAIK.
Per this Reuters article, AI seems to largely be deployed in the contexts of frontline operations and counter-drone systems.
The types of AI that such systems would use would be more specialized than general purpose LLMs like ChatGPT, trained on military reconnaissance data rather than generalized human knowledge. I’m generally anti-AI and find Palantir’s involvement concerning, but if such systems help Ukraine reduce frontline losses and improve its defensive capabilities by accelerating its counter-drone capabilities against increasingly rapid Russian drones, then perhaps in this rare instance, AI might be beneficial.
Importantly, however, Ukraine should ensure that its use of the technology doesn’t result in its own drones accidentally going off-course from intended military targets, something that Russian propagandists would use to fuel far-right anti-Ukraine sentiment across the west.
I don’t think that’s related because it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with changes in command structure?
Most articles talking about AI and the Ukrainian military refer to recent plans to unify the use of AI under a singular command structure. This follows them setting up their ‘A1’ AI center in March, but it seems to only be a component of the Ukrainian military, not an overhaul of their military command as a whole.
They did reform the structure of their military to be closer aligned with NATO, but that predated their recent shift towards AI.