This was expressed by the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, reported Ukrinform, citing Reuters.

“Steps aimed at driving the rapid development of artificial intelligence include the creation of a special organization for military robots in the ministry and a record high budget this year for related research and development,” said retired army general Eyal Zamir. said.

He cited GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) and AGI (artificial general intelligence) as areas of deep research that the civilian AI industry is working on and may eventually have military applications.

“There are people who see artificial intelligence as the next revolution that will change the face of war on the battlefield,” Zamir said at the Herzliya Conference.

Eyal attributed Israel’s success in cyber warfare, which is believed to be used against Iran’s nuclear facilities, to the “accurate and timely determination of defence, economic, national and international dimensions”.

According to him, “their task is to transform Israel into a superpower in the field of artificial intelligence and to be the leader of the very limited number of world states that are part of this club.”

As reported by Ukrinform, leaders of Group of Seven (G7) countries on Saturday called for the development and adoption of international technical standards for the reliability of artificial intelligence.