Assessing Algorithmic Influence In Military Education

This article argues that AI-mediated cadet/officer training is not ethically neutral but functions as a normative training environment that shapes attention, incentives, and moral reasoning. Drawing on a virtue-ethics distinction between simulated virtue (ethically correct-looking outputs and rule compliance) and internalised virtue (phronesis-based judgment under pressure), it describes how AI training ecosystems pre-structure ethical perception through data, interfaces, feedback, and assessment signals.