USAF-MIT AI ACCELERATOR
MICHAEL KANAAN ON THE USAF AND MIT ’ S AI ACCELERATOR , AND ITS MISSION TO USE AI TO INCREASE CAPABILITIES WHILE ADDRESSING SOCIETAL DEMANDS
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M ichael Kanaan is Director of Operations , U . S . Air Force and MIT Artificial Intelligence Accelerator , having previously been at the
Pentagon as the co-chair of AI for the Air Force .
The USAF-MIT AI Accelerator began in January 2020 . “ It ’ s pursuant to a cooperative agreement with MIT , MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the Department of the Air Force ,” explains Kanaan . “ Our efforts stretch across three main lines . The first is to execute a number of flagship AI projects and the related work to bring that into existence . The second is developing scalable AI education for the workforce – all demographics , all ages , and all ranks . And the last is to lead the dialogue in AI ethics and safety . It ’ s all about making AI real for our workforce .”
Aside from the three flagship projects which we are covering in depth , the initiatives include such things as natural language processing for communication with machine and foreign language training , swarming unmanned aerial vehicles for
DECEMBER 2020