What, weekend warriors from Silicon Valley not good enough?

The US Army has been all-in on becoming an AI-powered outfit for some time, and now it's creating a career path for officers to specialize in making its automation dreams come true. 

The new AI/ML officer area of concentration will begin accepting candidates from the Army's existing officer corps in January through the Volunteer Transfer Incentive Program, according to an announcement published Tuesday. It's not clear how many AI officers the Army plans to train as part of its initial cadre of candidates, but it wants to have all of them formally reclassified by the end of the 2026 fiscal year. 

Training will be at the "graduate level," according to the Army, and will focus on giving AI officer candidates "hands-on experience in building, deploying, and maintaining the Army's cutting-edge AI-enabled systems." 

As we've reported over the past couple of years, those systems are ...