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Tech giants have turned the war in Ukraine into an Artificial Intelligence war laboratory.
It's been nearly a year and a half since Palantir CEO Alex Karp met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and became involved in the day-to-day workings of a foreign government during a time of war in an unprecedented way. Plantir is an American public company that specializes in data analytics software platforms.
Many Ukrainian agencies, including its Ministries of Defense, Economy and Education, are using the company's products. Palantir's software, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze satellite images, open-source data, drone footage and ground reports to present commanders with military options, is "responsible for most of the targets in Ukraine," according to Karp.
Ukrainian officials told TIME they are using the company's data analytics for projects that go far beyond battlefield intelligence, including gathering evidence of war crimes, clearing land mines, resettling displaced refugees and eradication of corruption. Palantir was so eager to show off its capabilities that it gave them to Ukraine for free.
Giants like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Starlink have worked to protect Ukraine from Russian cyberattacks, migrate critical government data and keep the country connected, donating hundreds of millions of dollars to the country's defense.
Ukraine and its private sector allies say they are playing a longer game, that of creating a war laboratory for the future.
War has always spurred innovation, and in the modern era, private industry has made key contributions to advances such as the atomic bomb. But cooperation between foreign technology companies and Ukraine's armed forces, which say they have a software engineer stationed with every battalion, is spurring a new kind of experimentation in military AI. The result is an acceleration of the most important fundamental change in the character of war ever recorded in history.
The war in Ukraine has reached a stalemate, with both sides fighting with 20th-century weapons such as artillery and tanks. Some view claims of high-tech advances with skepticism, arguing that warfare is little affected by the deployment of AI tools.
But Ukraine and its private-sector allies say they are playing a longer game: creating a war laboratory for the future, as Kiev's terrain offers all the possibilities.
But if the future of warfare is being tested with Artificial Intelligence in Ukraine, the results will have global consequences. /Adapted "Pamphlet" from "Times"
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