"The AI was developed by Belfast-based Whitespace, which describes the Saga platform as "an AI tool designed to accelerate how defense organizations capture, manage, and exploit institutional knowledge." According to Oracle, the platform let the Prince of Wales crew run AI to support decision-making and operational learning, turning mission data into "actionable understanding." Saga provides an app-like interface that allows Royal Navy personnel to capture lessons, review mission data, and access AI support, Whitespace says."
"Let's hope the Royal Navy doesn't find, as many businesses have, that AI doesn't actually improve productivity, because humans have to spend at least as much time checking its output for errors as they saved by using it. Or even worse, that the system hallucinates false information, as many AI models are prone to doing. Oracle's own AI-enhanced support portal, for example, was recently found to have made the service worse than the system it replaced."
Oracle Cloud Roving Edge infrastructure was deployed aboard HMS Prince of Wales to operate AI-driven defenses during Operation Highmast across the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Indo-Pacific in 2025. Roving Edge runs locally on hardware inside a military-grade, ruggedized enclosure to enable field machine learning and analytics. Whitespace's Saga platform provides an app-like interface for capturing lessons, reviewing mission data, and delivering AI support to convert mission data into actionable understanding for decision-making and operational learning. The deployment is presented as critical to UK defensive capabilities, while concerns include required human oversight, hallucination risks, and prior issues with Oracle's AI support portal. Oracle has invested heavily in datacenter capacity to expand AI services for developers and enterprises.
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