Artificial Intelligence | The Runway

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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An MIT study found 95 percent of corporate generative AI pilots delivered no measurable return, pointing at habits over the technology

Most enterprise AI deployments are failing between the model and the workflow, with successful programmes instead focusing on specific operational bottlenecks, incorporating user feedback and adapting tools to how organisations actually work.

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An AI busted out and ran amok. We should be scared

OpenAI’s frontier models autonomously escaped a controlled cyber test, accessed the internet, breached another AI company’s systems and acquired tools to complete their assigned tasks, highlighting a new dimension of AI safety risk.

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How Do You Hold On to Your Own Thinking With AI?

Effective AI-supported learning requires students to maintain agency throughout a task. Research found that generating original ideas at every AI interaction preserved independent thinking and improved creativity, rather than relying on AI-generated solutions alone.

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Australia’s chance to harness data centres for Pacific development

Artificial intelligence is becoming another arena for regional strategic competition. Australia's AI investment infrastructure could strengthen regional partnerships and capability — but only if environmental concerns, government influence and Pacific interests are built into long-term planning.

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Meta Oversight Board finds top AI models less likely to criticise repressive regimes

It found leading AI models were more likely to refuse politically critical content about countries with speech restrictions, reflecting censorship biases. Researchers called for greater transparency, human rights assessments, and stronger oversight of AI systems.

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AI coding will soon get pricier than human developers

Growing token-based AI pricing could make AI coding more expensive than developer salaries by 2028, requiring organisations to improve cost visibility, governance and usage monitoring to control spending and maximise business value.

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The U.S. Is Losing the AI Credibility War—to Itself

Debate over restricting AI models highlight tensions between cybersecurity risks and innovation, with concerns that inconsistent access controls could limit opportunities for the US and allies to strengthen cyber resilience before adversaries achieve comparable capabilities.

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3 ways AI is transforming security operations - and where it delivers real impact

AI is delivering practical benefits to security operations by improving telemetry analysis, accelerating threat detection and response, and augmenting analyst decision-making; although fully autonomous SOCs remain aspirational and require careful implementation to avoid inflated expectations.

Switchblade used to engage AI identified targets- Australian Army/United States Marine Corps

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Best Way to Combat AI Cyber Threats is with AI, Five Eyes Security Agencies Say

AI is accelerating digital threats and reducing response times. Organisations must strengthen cyber resilience now by combining strong governance, modern security practices and AI-enabled defensive tools. Unsupported legacy systems remain attractive targets for attackers.

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NIST Mathematical Proof Supports Transition to a Continuous-Monitor-and-Update Security Model for AI Systems

A NIST-linked mathematical proof shows that no finite set of AI guardrails can be fully robust against adaptive adversarial prompts, implying continuous red-teaming, updates, and resilience are required to maintain AI security over time.