New Delhi: With artificial intelligence emerging as an important area which could well change the nature of future military warfare, Indian Army is holding a first-of-its-kind thematic seminar on the subject at the Hisar Military Station on September 25.
The seminar will be attended by domain experts from academia and the industry. Artificial intelligence is an emerging, disruptive technology affecting civil and military domains across the globe, a senior army official said.
“The aim of the event is to bring together professionals, eminent speakers from the defence industry, academia, defence officers to brainstorm the way ahead with the objective to identify and conceptualise AI-based defence applications and platforms for the future battlefield,” he said.
South Western Command chief Lt Gen Alok Singh Kler said, disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence will dictate how the future warfare will happen.
The presence of the academia, which will include experts from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, at the event shall also give direction for the efforts to be put into R&D for future weapon platforms, the official said. A few officers from the Air Force and the Navy are also slated to attend the seminar.
