The Defense Department’s cutting-edge research arm has promised to make the military’s largest investment to date in artificial intelligence systems for U.S. weaponry, committing to spend up to $2 billion over the next five years in what it depicted as a new effort to make such systems more trusted and accepted by military commanders.

The Defense Department’s cutting-edge research arm has promised to make the military’s largest investment to date in artificial intelligence systems for U.S. weaponry, committing to spend up to $2 billion over the next five years in what it depicted as a new effort to make such systems more trusted and accepted by military commanders.