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OPINION JUNE 03, 2022 | The Indian Eye 10

NATO’s Artificial Intelligence

Push and its Military Implications

The vulnerabilities in the AI systems can include data poisoning and input attacks, attacking the supply

pipelines by simply crafting data and feeding it to public resources, white-box and black-box attacks

SANUR SHARMA novation and adoption. It discusses using AI for reconnaissance, elec- accelerate the uptake of AI for mili-
the role of AI in contemporary con- tromagnetic countermeasures and tary systems. The six principles of the
he technological advance- flicts, specifically NATO’s response coordinated firepower strikes. The NATO’s AI strategy include: Law-
ments in Artificial Intelligence to the Russia–Ukraine conflict, and US is jointly working with its allies on fulness, Responsibility and Account-
T(AI), machine learning, big explores the vulnerabilities in the AI the policy implications of such new ability, Explainability and Traceabil-
data analytics, robotics, quantum systems as well as the challenges and technology. It is also partnering with ity, Reliability, Governability and
computing and virtual reality have limitations in AI adoption by NATO. countries like Canada, Denmark, Es- Bias Mitigation. This strategy aims
led to the rise in use of autonomous tonia, the UK, France and Norway, to protect, monitor and innovate AI
systems in military applications. This NATO’s Technological Push to work on military standards on AI. and related disruptive technologies
is changing the face of the battlefield In October 2021, NATO formal- in a phased manner to establish polit-
by enabling new forms of military The US National Security Com- ly adopted the first AI strategy on the ical support for AI military projects.
functions, over and above the con- mission Report of 2021 states that responsible military use of AI with In the NATO Summit held at
ventional systems, thus enabling the China is leapfrogging to new tech- three core tasks: collective defense, Brussels in 2021, as a part of the
execution of higher coercive actions. nologies by investing in intelligen- crisis management and cooperative NATO 2030 Agenda, NATO’s new
The North Atlantic Treaty Organi- tsia warfare like swarm drones and security. NATO’s strategy aims to Defense Innovation Accelerator for
zation (NATO) countries are also the North Atlantic (DIANA) was
adopting such emerging technologies launched. It aims to maintain NA-
to maintain their strategic advantage TO’s technological edge compared
and to mitigate transnational threats. to nations like China and Russia,
Russia’s offensive cyber hostil- which are challenging the West with
ities and China’s military adoption their accelerated investments to
of AI for augmenting its high-tech build technological capacity and use
warfare mechanisms have emerged offensive subversive measures.
as the contributing factors for NATO AI has been a contributing agent
to upscale its technological efforts in in weaponizing cyberspace and aug-
Emerging and Disruptive Technolo- menting cyberwarfare to the next
gies (EDTs). NATO is making ambi- level in modern battlefield scenari-
tious investments in EDTs to ensure os. While some of its uses such as in
interoperability and standardization scaling of data analytics, data fusion,
among member states. deep fakes, cyber defense have ma-
This Issue Brief takes stock of tured, its use in autonomous weapon
the current strategic surge by NATO systems and other complex opera-
in AI adoption and its ongoing ef- tional applications are at a nascent
forts to exploit EDTs for defense in- Continued at next page... >>

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