AI and Cyber for Defence: Dr Dale A. Lambert
Dr Dale A. Lambert PSM, Chief of Cyber and Electronic Warfare Division in the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group, Australian Department of Defence; Autonomous Cyber
The Industrial Age operated with a 2-tiers, human environments and physical industrial environments in which people directly controlled their industrial machines. The current Information Age now operates with a 3-tiered arrangement in which human environments interface to information environments that in turn interface to physical environments.
As a consequence people no longer directly control their physical environments. They instead issue commands to information environments and those information environments directly control the physical environments. Indeed society now has a total reliance on information environments to the point that they directly influence and sometime control the human, information and physical environments of others.
If you can control a society’s information environments, then you can control that society. This has ushered in a new era of Information Warfare in which warfare is now being conducted inside of the information environments to effect the human, information and physical environments of others.
As Information Warfare matures this will increasingly become a contest between Artificial Intelligence systems in which we effectively have digital soldiers in digital armies inside information environments. Artificial Intelligence needs to progress to meet this challenge.
Dr Dale A. Lambert PSM, Chief of Cyber and Electronic Warfare Division in the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group, Australian Department of Defence; Autonomous Cyber
The Industrial Age operated with a 2-tiers, human environments and physical industrial environments in which people directly controlled their industrial machines. The current Information Age now operates with a 3-tiered arrangement in which human environments interface to information environments that in turn interface to physical environments.
As a consequence people no longer directly control their physical environments. They instead issue commands to information environments and those information environments directly control the physical environments. Indeed society now has a total reliance on information environments to the point that they directly influence and sometime control the human, information and physical environments of others.
If you can control a society’s information environments, then you can control that society. This has ushered in a new era of Information Warfare in which warfare is now being conducted inside of the information environments to effect the human, information and physical environments of others.
As Information Warfare matures this will increasingly become a contest between Artificial Intelligence systems in which we effectively have digital soldiers in digital armies inside information environments. Artificial Intelligence needs to progress to meet this challenge.
