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Atlanta: According to a recent study from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the military cannot rely upon Artificial Intelligence (AI) for its strategy and judgement making, research argues that only limited things can be automated and also on the importance of human discernment. The finding of the study was published in the International Security. "All of the hard problems in AI really are judgment and data problems, and the interesting thing about that is when you start thinking about war, the hard problems are strategy and uncertainty, or what is well known as the fog of war," said Jon Lindsay, an associate professor in the School of Cybersecurity & Privacy and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. "You need human sense-making and to make moral, ethical, and intellectual decisions in an incredibly confusing, fraught, scary situation." AI decision-making is based on four key components: data about a situation, interpretation of those data (or prediction), determining the best way to act in line with goals and values (or judgment), and action. Machine learning advancements have made predictions easier, which makes data and judgment even more valuable. Although AI can automate everything from commerce to transit, judgment is where humans must intervene, Lindsay and the University of Toronto Professor Avi Goldfarb wrote in the paper, "Prediction and Judgment: Why Artificial Intelligence Increases the Importance of Humans in War," published in International Security. Many policymakers assume human soldiers could be replaced with automated systems, ideally making militaries less dependent on human labor and more effective on the battlefield. This is called the substitution theory of AI, but Lindsay and Goldfarb state tha ...