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Chinese military university urged to revise AI course to ‘educate for war’

From South China Morning Post · () English

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  • Researchers at China’s National University of Defence Technology have proposed revising an AI principles and practice course for graduate students.
  • The proposal would place “educating for war” at the course’s centre and embed combat scenarios to prepare future officers for intelligent warfare.
  • The initiative comes as China seeks to cultivate more military AI expertise.

Researchers at China’s National University of Defence Technology want a graduate AI course redesigned around a blunt objective: “educating for war.”

The proposed AI principles and practice course would embed combat scenarios in its teaching. The aim is to better prepare future officers for what the researchers describe as intelligent warfare.

Researchers from the university’s College of Intelligence Science and Technology outlined the proposal in the July issue of the journal Defence Industry Conversion in China.

The initiative comes as China seeks to cultivate more military expertise in artificial intelligence.

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