After Russia, China and US, India has decided to include Artificial Intelligence in its defence forces with an aim to enhance the operational preparedness of the armed forces.
Speaking to ANI, Ajay Kumar, Defence Secretary (Production), MoD said that a task force has been set up under the chairmanship of Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran to finalise the specifics and framework of the project.
“Artificial Intelligence is going to influence everything in the future, our common lives also including it also going to affect the future warfare. Most of the major countries in the world are taking steps to ensure that their defence systems are fully empowered using Artificial Intelligence. In India, we have also taken steps in this direction,” Kumar said.
ANI reported that the project to equip defence forces with Artificial Intelligence, includes the representation from all defence forces or Defence Research and Development (DRDO) labs, government, BEL, experts, professionals and startups.
He further said that India has a strong IT industry base which will become the biggest strength in terms of developing Artificial Intelligence capabilities. “We need to work on a partnership model between industries and defence forces which should be different from a buyer-seller proposition,” he added.
