Army promotion boards will employ artificial intelligence (AI) to augment the selection process, officials announced.
Officials stated that safeguards will be implemented to protect against "bias" in computer reviews. While AI will help narrow down pools of candidates, they emphasized that "only humans can make a good judgment call."
only humans can make a good judgment call
The Army is utilizing computer analysis, viewed as artificial intelligence, to review files of enlisted soldiers seeking promotions. This analysis checks for eligibility and other basic scores.
Hope Rampy, commanding general of Army Human Resource Command, noted that enlisted evaluation boards must review thousands of records. Some of these records include soldiers who are "not even competitive for promotion, but we still have to give them an order of meritless score."
Author's summary: Army introduces AI to enhance promotion board process.