Medical triage AI program may be used by US military on the battlefield

A new program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking to use artificial intelligence to make medical triage decisions on the battlefield, reported The Washington Post March 29. 

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The program, named In The Moment, is trying to build an AI-powered medical triage system that would make decisions about care for military personnel. The program will build and test algorithms that help medical decision-making for both small unit injuries and mass casualty events. This includes scenarios such as special operations taking fire or more widespread bomb blasts. 

According to Matt Turek, a program manager at the agency, the AI could take into account resources at local hospitals and numbers of available medical professionals in the vicinity into its decision-making. 

“That wouldn’t fit within the brain of a single human decision-maker,” Mr. Turek told the Post. “Computer algorithms may find solutions that humans can’t.”

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