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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping how modern forces generate decision advantage, integrate capabilities and strengthen credible deterrence. As Defence evolves toward a more integrated and technology-enabled force, AI enhances situational awareness, accelerates analysis and supports more effective joint operations across all domains. In a Professional Military Education (PME) context, AI is both a capability and a leadership responsibility. Building AI literacy across all ranks strengthens Defence’s intellectual edge, supports innovation and prepares personnel to lead confidently. This topic explores the practical and ethical dimensions of AI, ensuring PME remains aligned to the demands of a rapidly changing strategic environment.

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Using AI has an environmental impact — here are 4 ways you can minimize it

AI’s environmental cost is growing with its use, but efficiency does not depend solely on technology companies. Choosing simpler tools, smaller models and shorter outputs can reduce the energy consumed by everyday AI use.

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Ben Carroll adds artificial intelligence ministry to Victorian cabinet, dumps transport infrastructure

AI governance, regulatory reform, digital investment and data-centre assessment will gain a dedicated cabinet voice. The reshuffle also consolidates major project oversight across public transport and roads while reducing the frontbench’s size.

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Putting Armageddon on Autopilot: How Artificial Intelligence Could Make Nuclear Threats More Effective

Rising nuclear competition and AI advances could make automated nuclear launch systems more credible coercive tools, increasing escalation risks despite dangers from malfunctions, hacking, and miscalculation. Researchers urge deterrence, safeguards, and bans on nuclear automation.

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What Sam Altman Wouldn’t Ask ChatGPT

Happiness is built through meaningful relationships, self-awareness, and practices like meditation and breath-work—Not AI. While AI can provide information about happiness, genuine wellbeing comes from lived experience, human connection, and daily practice.

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AI’s Economic Winners

Global advantage will depend on capital, talent, energy, digital infrastructure and resilient supply chains—not frontier models alone. Semiconductor chokepoints give Taiwan, the Netherlands and Japan leverage alongside American and Chinese technological leadership.

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The AI access gap is widening amid uneven adoption

Senior leaders report greater tool availability and training than junior staff, while workers save four hours weekly. Strategic disconnects leave middle managers poorly positioned to translate executive ambitions into workforce practice.

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US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own

Auterion’s Skynode S kits provide visual terminal guidance without GPS or continuous radio links, with 50,000 units funded under a $100 million contract. Future Nemyx upgrades could let one operator coordinate autonomous multi-vehicle strikes.

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Companies fear AI risks more than common cybersecurity threats

Sixty-three percent of surveyed organisations suffered an incident, yet nearly all leaders remained confident in their security teams. Some victims lost two weeks’ productivity, while one in ten endured disruption spanning two quarters.

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How a former Marine is rewriting the future of battlefield AI

The technical leader is transforming data workflows to deliver AI capabilities to frontline troops, using smaller edge-computing nodes and streamlined data processes. The approach, already supporting operations like Epic Fury, aims to accelerate battlefield decision-making.

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Chinese military researchers tap US AI models to train defence systems

The researchers are using outputs from OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems via distillation, accelerating defence applications such as surveillance, cyber warfare, targeting and autonomous operations. Happening despite US technology restrictions.