[20211221]IF11105_防务基础：新兴技术.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated December 21, 2021Defense Primer: Emerging TechnologiesBoth the 2018 National Defense Strategy and senior U.S. defense and intelligence officials have identified a number of emerging technologies that could have a disruptive impact on U.S. national security in the years to come. These technologies include artificial intelligence, lethal autonomous weapons, hypersonic weapons, directed energy weapons, biotechnology, and quantum technology. As these technologies continue to mature, they could hold significant implications for congressional oversight, U.S. defense authorizations and appropriations, military concepts of operations, and the future of war. Artificial Intelligence Although there is no official U.S. government definition of artificial intelligence (AI), AI generally refers to a computer system capable of executing tasks requiring human-level cognition. AI is currently being incorporated into a number of military applications, including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; logistics; cyber operations; command and control; and semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles. As it develops, AI could enable new concepts of operations,