{"id":1982477,"date":"2023-07-25T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T21:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-urges-army-to-develop-ai-neural-sensors-to-track-soldiers-mental-states\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T21:26:02","slug":"senate-urges-army-to-develop-ai-neural-sensors-to-track-soldiers-mental-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-urges-army-to-develop-ai-neural-sensors-to-track-soldiers-mental-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate urges army to create AI sensors for tracking soldiers&#8217; mental states."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-urges-army-to-develop-ai-neural-sensors-to-track-soldiers-mental-states%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1982477&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(L-R) Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army General James C. McConville and Secretary of\u2063 the U.S. Army Christine E. \u2064Wormuth. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><br \/>2:17\u200d PM \u2013 \u200cTuesday, July 25, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>The Senate is now\u200c urging the Pentagon\u2062 to build \u2062artificial intelligence (AI)-powered \u201cwearable\u201d neural sensors that could convey data to \u2062commanders about the physical and mental state of soldiers in the field.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>This month, \u200bthe Senate Armed Services Committee \u200dissued its \u200bannual military\u2064 policy bill, which was \u2063accompanied by a\u2064 report stating\u200b that senators\u200d from both parties\u200b wanted the Pentagon to move more quickly to provide this piece of \u200bAI\u200c technology to\u2063 potentially hundreds of thousands \u200dof U.S. soldiers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe committee \u2062encourages the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to accelerate funding for the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-urges-army-to-develop-ai-neural-sensors-to-track-soldiers-mental-states\/\" title=\"Senate urges army to create AI sensors for tracking soldiers' mental states.\">dual-purpose wearable neural biosensor technologies<\/a> via the National\u200b Network for Microelectronics Research and\u2063 Development \u2063to support broader transition to the services,\u201d the committee said in its report on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the report, an Army office that establishes standards for field troops and a joint\u200b agency \u2062that works with a variety \u200cof defense \u2063technologies are designing the types of \u2063biometric data that\u2062 these sensors should highlight.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064Pentagon declined to \u2063offer the press\u2062 an\u2064 estimated completion\u2064 date\u200d for this study, however, they did detail how an AI review of data acquired by these\u200d sensors may assist commanders in making military decisions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWearable systems gather real-time data from warfighters that can give them and their commanders information on important predictors of performance\u2063 such as fatigue, dehydration, nutritional status, heat stress, illness,\u2063 or possible exposure to harmful chemicals or biological\u200c organisms,\u201d\u2062 said a Defense Department spokesperson.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to\u2062 the Senate study, AI-powered sensors could be utilized to track such data across various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-meets-with-turkeys-erdogan-at-g20-in-rome\/\" title=\"Biden meets with Turkey\u2019s Erdogan at G20 in Rome\">defense units<\/a>, \u200cincluding security personnel,\u2062 aviators, and\u200d unmanned\u200c system pilots. Senators \u2062predicted that this kind \u2063of technology will eventually be used to track and evaluate data\u200b on \u201c500,000 warfighters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senate\u2019s effort to deploy AI\u2063 technology comes as some \u200dmembers\u200d of Congress continue to \u200dexplore methods \u2064to make these systems both\u200c safe and effective. Senate Majority Leader\u200b Chuck Schumer\u200d (D-NY)  stated that he \u200cwants senators to consult with\u2063 more experts in \u2062the fall before introducing any additional AI-related legislation.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden recently stated\u2064 that seven AI\u2063 developers\u2062 have agreed to standards \u2064aimed at\u2062 developing \u2062AI systems that are safe, secure, \u200cand \u2062trustworthy in the \u2064long \u2062run.<\/p>\n<p>However, legislators are also under\u2064 pressure to guarantee that the United States begins using AI\u2063 systems to\u200c stay on top of China and other military rivals. The House-passed \u200bNational Defense Authorization Act, \u200bfor example, urges \u200bthe Navy to include AI \u200cinto its logistics strategy, pushes the Army to create autonomous \u2063combat vehicles, \u200cand directs\u200b the whole department to investigate how AI may \u200cbe\u2062 used to\u2063 strengthen America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-to-give-ukraine-everything-it-needs-for-as-long-as-it-takes-biden-national-security-adviser-says\/\" title=\"Biden's adviser promises full support to Ukraine indefinitely.\">national\u200c security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the Pentagon has demonstrated that it will not require much motivation to embrace this new\u2063 technology. In January, \u2064the Army offered a contract opportunity for a business to investigate a\u200c variety\u2063 of automated jobs using AI and machine\u2062 learning, as well as another contract for \u2064companies producing wearable radiation sensors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cTrusted AI and\u200d autonomy technologies could\u200c help the Army streamline several tactical\u200b processes\u2026 We need \u200bto make sure \u2064soldiers have the most advanced technological and \u2064strategic\u200c capabilities,\u201d said Dr. Matt \u2063Willis, director \u200cof Army prize competitions in the\u2064 Office of the\u2064 Assistant Secretary of \u2062the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u2063Army\u2019s enhanced \u2063soldier program manager, Stephanie Brown, stated in June that AI and \u200dmachine learning are currently \u200bbeing \u200cused\u2064 to\u200c collect and utilize \u2062a wide range of data \u2062regarding the battlefield and the troops themselves.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe\u2064 Army needs technology\u200b to sense \u2062everything about\u2064 the battlefield, including \u2062the soldiers themselves, in \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-staff-told-us-he-misspoke-joe-biden-confuses-his-agenda-in-60-minutes-interview-so-his-staff-steps-in-to-correct-the-record-video\/\" title=\"\"Biden's Staff Told Us He Misspoke\" - Joe Biden Confuses His Agenda in 60 Minutes Interview so His Staff Steps in to Correct the Record (VIDEO)\">real time<\/a>,\u201d Brown said. \u201cIn\u200b parallel \u2063to sensing, we\u200c need to develop AI\/ML algorithms to\u200c help understand the data being sensed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cIn \u200bgeneral, this may allow \u2064us to reduce risk and injury to our soldiers and protect our people\u2026 For example, some of the\u2063 wearable sensors could provide health monitoring and casualty care, to include triage information to assist\u200c medics \u200dwith injury\u2064 identification, classification, and treatment,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay\u2063 informed! 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General James C. McConville and Secretary Christine E. Wormuth are pictured discussing this. 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