The following report was submitted to the Defence Select Committee of the House of Commons in January 2024, in order to educate policy makers on the adoption of AI in Britain’s defence sectors.Recommendations:Move to a proactive approach to AI capability development and deploy capabilities today without perpetual delay waiting for ideal conditions Do not wait for the MOD’s data strategy to progress, or for massive hand labelled data sources. Training on available data (including open source data and internal classified sources) and using self-supervised and low-shot learning AI techniques can enable capability gains today.Do not wait for or overly rely upon future secure cloud solutions, edge computing and on-premise hosting should be used now.
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