Growing an artificial intelligence capability: challenges and opportunities

Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) potential to augment or auto-mate human decision making has caught the attention of many within the Department of Defense (DoD). Effective AI implementations, originating from well-scoped use cases, require the alignment of people, processes, and technologies. While many focus on the opportunities that these systems provide for leap ahead improvements to the future state of DoD business processes and warfighting capabilities, the challenges that must be overcome must not be under-estimated and expectations should be man-aged appropriately with an understanding that achieving the desired end state will be a long term endeavor. This paper provides a brief overview of some of the challenges that must be overcome in order to realize the opportunities presented by AI systems.