Odd Lots · Friday, September 4, 2026
Wayne Sanders addressed the integration of Artificial Intelligence in military applications, stating that current AI focuses on optimizing processes and improving intelligence analysis rather than making kill decisions. He emphasized that AI is used to flag potential targets or anomalies, but the ultimate authority for tactical strikes remains with human commanders, ensuring a 'human in the loop' approach for critical decisions.
“The military does a phenomenal job at identifying this well before a conflict when you go forward. Depending on what type of threat that is, it's going to say you have the authorities at your level to accomplish the following things.”
“What it hasn't entered into very much is really when you look at identifying friend and foe leading to a command decision for a tactical strike. Those are things that are still maintained. Those are human in the loop AI problems.”
“Where we are not at right now and where we are quite a ways away based off of trust models and all that, I think exactly where we should be is we are not at the point where AI is going to go, I see that truck, I've been given an order to destroy it, and I am going to take that target execution authority that I mentioned earlier, and just drop the bomb.”