What if an authoritarian leader of a nuclear nation could improve their cognitive abilities by 100x using implants? Can multimodal deepfakes turn a population against its government in five days? Will children be cognitively inoculated against misinformation before the end of this decade? These are but a few questions the NATO Industry Advisory Group (NIAG) imagined as part of Study Group 278 on Cognitive Augmentation for Military Applications at the 2040 horizon.

The commoditization of generative AI and the vast breadth of emerging cognitive technologies, combined, will yield new opportunities and threats for NATO nations. Understanding this landscape is critical for government stakeholders and industry decision-makers as they seek to leverage such prospects and anticipate/mitigate the related threats.

In this special event, servicemembers and industry representatives will get a primer on the SG-278 report, focused on four components for cognitive augmentation: training and readiness, neurotech, emerging tech, and ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI). Attendees will learn:

    How to navigate the landscape of cognitive augmentation for military applications
    Critical NATO use cases and concepts of use for leveraging cognitive augmentation for blue forces while countering cognitive augmentation of red forces
    Early insights and recommendations for NATO and industry towards roadmapping cognitive augmentation towards 2040