Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress he has made on artificial intelligence capabilities in the AUKUS partnership.

AUKUS partners continue to progress AI and autonomy, focusing efforts on Resilient and Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Technologies (RAAIT) to deliver artificial algorithms and machine learning to enhance force protection, precision targeting, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. In April 2023, the UK hosted a successful first demonstration of Australian, UK and US AI-enabled assets in a collaborative swarm to detect and track military targets in a representative environment in real time, with a further demonstration in South Australia in October 2023.