In a Calcalist article, Renana Ashkenazi describes how AI is moving into complex, physical industries while investors shift toward infrastructure.
Why is construction emerging as a key AI disruption target?
The survey identifies construction, logistics, and healthcare as the industries expected to face the most significant disruption from technologies developed in battlefield environments. Among them, construction is repeatedly marked as an immediate target for transformation.
Renana Ashkenazi explains the dynamic: “Construction sites are essentially a slow-motion war zone – an unpredictable environment, safety-critical decisions, scattered tools, and a shortage of manpower.”
Entrepreneurs are adapting technologies originally developed for defense use cases. Drone swarms, previously used for perimeter protection, are now being applied to monitor construction sites in real time.
This shift reflects a broader movement. AI is moving into autonomous systems, and capital is following into infrastructure, heavy hardware, and deep tech.
Read the full article featuring Renana Ashkenazi here.
