A new lab is hoping to use generative AI to enhance defense wargaming.

The goal of the new GenWar lab , scheduled to open in 2026 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, is to improve tabletop exercises by harnessing the speed and user-friendliness of large language models, or LLMs, which include popular chatbots such as ChatGPT.

By accessing AI during an exercise, human players can quickly experiment with different strategies. At the same time, human participants will be assisted by AI agents playing the role of staff advisers or even enemy leaders.

But the GenWar lab will offer even more intriguing possibilities. One is to allow human players to interact directly with sophisticated computer models operating behind the scenes of tabletop exercises. Anot

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