Johns Hopkins is building classified versions of its AI wargaming tools for DoD, IC
LAUREL, Md. — As the Trump Administration tries to jumpstart American AI amidst concerns about AI ethics and hallucinations, experts here believe they’ve found a low-risk, high-payoff way to leverage Large Language Models right now: wargames.
At least some federal agencies are receptive: Elements of the Defense Department, Energy Department, and intelligence community are asking the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) to take the AI-enhanced wargaming tools it’s developed, called GenWar and the Strategic AI Gaming Engine (SAGE), and upgrade them to run on classified networks using “highly classified data about our adversaries,” said James Miller, JHUAPL’s assistant director for policy and analysis.
“It’s going to be somewhat straightforward to move this onto TS/SCI networks,” Miller told a wargaming conference here last week, using the official shorthand for Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information. “We have one sponsor that’s very keen to do it quickly and others are interested as well.”
