A personal ‘Cortana’-like AI for every American soldier? It’s possible

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00:00Artificial intelligence is permeating just about every facet of modern life, but using

00:07it in the military is a little different. Military AI models have lots of national

00:12secrets that need protecting, something AI models aren't great about when anyone can

00:18ask them questions. And for troops operating far from the safety of a proper military installation,

00:25what's known as the tactical edge, using AI or any piece of technology that needs to send a signal

00:32or receive a signal could give away the troops' location, leading to deadly consequences.

00:39So how do you put this paradigm-shifting technology of AI into the hands of the

00:45warfighters who need it behind enemy lines, all without compromising them or the data?

00:52AIs are the next, it's the next frontier. I mean, these things can be more powerful than nuclear

00:59weapons. So we have to, I think, you know, all of us sort of just come together like it's the

01:06Manhattan Project again. And, you know, we have the big tech folks, we have the small startups like

01:12us. We all have different core competencies. I think we all need to work together to safeguard our

01:16definition. Tyler Saltzman is the president and co-founder of Edgerunner AI. It's a tech startup

01:22in the defense sector working to create AI assistance that can be used on any device and

01:28without an active network connection, which is called air-gapped in the industry. Edgerunner

01:35partnered with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, and uses the Llama AI model as the base from which

01:41to build AI agents tailor-made for each job in the military. Imagine a better version of ChatGPT

01:49that never needs the internet that's military specific. And what that means is it's specific

01:55to your MOS, your military occupation specialty. So me, for example, I was an Army 90 Alpha,

02:01an Army logistician. I require much of an AI than a combat medic or a fighter pilot or a tank operator.

02:07For example, when I was in Eastern Europe running logistics missions, I was running an explosive

02:12ordinance to the forward line of troops in the EOD unit. There was a point where we had a truck go

02:17down and now we had to repackage explosive ordinance from one truck to another truck.

02:22Well, the question is, will this exacerbate the explosion and take out my convoy or is it

02:28completely fine? Can these mix together the different explosive ordinances? Now in the military,

02:33there's lots of tables and charts on what can be mixed together, but you don't always have that

02:38crammed in your head or available when you're in the fight on a convoy in mission. So right away,

02:45an AI would be able to know, yeah, that's good. You're good to go or you're not. And for me,

02:50as the young lieutenant, you got to make the call.

02:52And because it's not connected to the internet or any other network or anything like that,

02:56there's no worry about enemy, you know, software trying to pull the information out of the cloud

03:05or anything like that, right? That's right. Now it's not perfect being air grabbed on the device,

03:09but it's significantly better than requiring internet connectivity or satellite, which you

03:14might as well just tell the enemy where you're at. So for this to be completely local, it's a big

03:19advantage. It's also more cost effective because you're not paying by the token, which, you know,

03:24we're seeing folks gouge customers by that. So it's unlimited inferences on your device.

03:31In addition to its partnership with Meta, Age Runner AI is also working on projects with the

03:36U.S. Army, Air Force, Space Force, and Special Operations Command.

03:40We have a lot of traction with SOCOM. We're actually deployed overseas with them and it works,

03:46you know, things are going well. We're saving them time. We're reducing cognitive load. Imagine

03:51you're running a mission and you're getting shot at or things are hitting the fan.

03:54And, you know, sometimes it's hard to think in those high-six environments and this can help

03:58you. So like reducing cognitive load on the warfighters so they can, you know, move forward.

04:04Tyler said multiple times during our conversation that Edge Runner AI or any artificial agent is not

04:11a magic bullet that will fix every problem, but it is a powerful tool that's going to be right

04:18more often than a human. For more reporting like this, download the Straight Arrow News app today.

04:24I'll see you next time.

04:26Bye.

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