AI Decision-Making in Strategic Planning
Generative AI integration in military strategy testing raises questions about LLM reliability, benchmarking against statecraft, and the risk of reducing strategic analysis to ‘what the AI said’ without human validation.
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GenWar Lab: Johns Hopkins APL’s Generative AI for Military Wargaming—Strategic Risks and the AI Validation Challenge
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is launching the GenWar Lab in 2026 to accelerate military wargaming using generative AI. The facility will embed LLMs into tabletop exercises to generate AI agents, translate human commands to mathematical models, and conduct AI-only scenarios. While promising faster strategic planning, GenWar raises critical questions: Can LLMs be reliably benchmarked…