Schimpf: Bounding non-deterministic AI is essential for military tech adoption
Brian Schimpf · No Priors Ep. 19 | With Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf · Jun 1, 2023 · at 20:05
Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf discusses deploying AI into military systems, arguing that operators require predictable and bounded behavior to trust autonomous systems.
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“A lot of these areas that are more non-deterministic, so, you know, things like reinforcement learning or, you know, potential applications of LOMs into the space, they are inherently non-deterministic, and that is a risk. And so kind of quantifying that, knowing how to bound it, knowing that it is kind of, even if non-deterministic, very predictable within a certain bound that is very, very key to getting the adoption that you want.”
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