Noah Sylvia

In three months, Ukrainian drones hit 15 Russian refineries. The Pentagon said that these strikes could have consequences for the global energy market. We are joined by Noah Sylvia, RUSI Research Analyst for C4ISR, to discuss these strikes and the use of AI in war.

“They have this thing called ‘machine vision,’ which is a form of AI. Basically you take a model and you have it on a chip and you train this model to identify geography and the target it is navigating to,” said Noah Sylvia, a research analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, a UK-based think tank. “When it is finally deployed, it is able to identify where it is.”

In a blog post for the British Royal United Services Institute defence think-tank, analyst Noah Sylvia said last month that humans would still need to cross-check every output. The Israeli military is "one of the most technologically advanced and integrated militaries in the world", he said. But "the odds of even the IDF using an AI with such a degree of sophistication and autonomy are low".