The Pentagon is betting on human-AI teaming, called 'Centaurs'. The foundational story is this: Back in the late 1990s, Deep Blue beat the best human chess pla

The Pentagon is betting on human-AI teaming, called 'Centaurs'. The foundational story is this: Back in the late 1990s, Deep Blue beat the best human chess player, a demonstration of the power of AI. Around ten years later, a tournament of individual grandmasters and individual AIs was won by ... some amateur chess players teamed with AIs. AIs aren't good at dealing with novel situations, humans are; they complement each other (and I'll add: unlike most other endeavors, in war the environment (the enemy) is desperately striving to confuse you and do the unexpected. Your self-parking car would have more trouble if someone was trying everything they could think of to stop it, as if their survival was at stake). Also, we strongly prefer humans make life-and-death decisions; hopefully that turns out to be realistic.