The Pentagonโs AI Edge Is Being Distilled Away
Adversaries do not need to breach the Pentagonโs systems: They only need to harvest the logic of the publicly released frontier AI models that underpin them. This is a defining risk as the Department of Defense pivots to an โAI-firstโ warfighting machine. In this new context, military predominance is a derivative of AI model supremacy. From Project Mavenโs intelligence fusion to the high-velocity sensor-to-shooter loops of Andurilโs Lattice, the Defense Departmentโs most advanced systems are tethered to the frontier models forged by tech heavyweights like Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. As long as these firms hold the high ground in the The post The Pentagonโs AI Edge Is Being Distilled Away appeared first on War on the Rocks.