NATO adopts its first AI strategy and establishes a €1 billion innovation fund

NATO discussed its first AI strategy and established a €1 billion innovation fund.

SecGen @jensstoltenberg at his doorstep ahead of #DefMin, said that Ministers will:

➡️ take decisions to strengthen #NATO’s security
➡️ Prepare the #NATOSummit in Madrid
➡️ Adopt 1st strategy on AI
➡️ Sign up to an innovation fund
➡️ Discuss Afghanistanhttps://t.co/29D5vELQu1 pic.twitter.com/ycBmsJApdZ

— Oana L unguscu (@NATOpress) October 21, 2021

Ahead of the Madrid summit on 21–22 October, the alliance’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said that the fund would invest in breakthrough military developments and dual-use technologies. To support these efforts in Europe and North America, new headquarters and testing centres would be established, he added.

“We must maintain our technological edge. In future conflicts, bullets and bombs will not be the only weapons used, but bytes and big data as well,” the secretary-general said.

Stoltenberg also said that the alliance was pushed toward such a step by ‘authoritarian countries seeking to develop new technologies, from artificial intelligence to autonomous systems’.

According to him, the alliance’s AI strategy would bring together areas such as data analysis, image processing, and cyber defence.

In the morning of 22 October, 17 NATO member states signed an agreement to establish the fund.

At the Brussels Summit, #NATO leaders committed to strengthening our Alliance in order to keep our people safe in a rapidly changing world.

Today, Allies are making progress towards this goal

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— NATO (@NATO) October 22, 2021

Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry said it planned to establish a directorate for AI development .

In March, the Pentagon urged to expand the use of artificial intelligence in military applications.

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