Automating the OODA Loop in the Age of AI

In a recently published article with Defence Studies I argue that artificial intelligence (AI) enabled capabilities cannot effectively, reliably, or safely complement – let alone replace – humans in understanding and apprehending the strategic environment to make predictions and judgments to inform and shape command-and-control (C2) decision-making – the authority and direction assigned to a commander. Moreover, the rapid diffusion of and growing dependency on AI technology (especially machine learning) to augment human decision-making at all levels of warfare harbinger strategic consequences that counterintuitively increase the importance of human involvement in these tasks across the entire chain of command.