To call the conflict in Iran the first “AI war” would be, in many ways, incorrect. Algorithms that scour hours of surveillance footage and pick out, say, trucks with mounted machine guns date back to the war in Afghanistan. Ukraine has built drones that use AI to navigate autonomously. Israel has used AI systems to identify possible targets from intelligence data.  Here’s what is new, in Iran and elsewhere: conversational AI systems that commanders turn to not just for analysis, but for advice. Unlike previous AI technologies, these advice engines are built on large language models. And they’re already reshaping…