As AI becomes part of military decision-making, it’s important to be wary of the pristine ideas of how technology can transform conflict.

Powerful countries wield the rhetoric of imminent security threats to rationalize unjust uses of new military technologies.

Through an executive order, President Donald Trump launched the American AI Initiative, further underscoring the importance of a group of technologies that are reshaping everything from medical diagnoses to war-fighting. The administration didn’t give many specifics in the order published Monday evening or details about funding for its various elements such as efforts to increase … Continued

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Looking back at our best coverage in 2017 of emerging technological threats. 

Generative AI can wreak havoc in many ways but it’s not an existential threat any more than computer code is.

Azerbaijan showed during the battle for Nagorno-Karabakh that even an old Soviet-era crop duster could be repurposed and used effectively in drone warfare—another example of how militaries continue to find innovative ways to employ increasingly autonomous systems.   

DeepMind’s David Silver is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society and recipient of the Mensa Foundation Prize for the best scientific discovery in the field of artificial intelligence. In this from-the-heart interview, I talk with Silver about games, the meaning of creativity, and AI’s potential to avert disasters such as climate change, human-made pathogens, mass poverty, and environmental catastrophe.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), deep-learning, and robotics are enabling new military capabilities that will have a disruptive impact on military strategies. The effects of these capabilities will be felt across the spectrum of military requirements – from intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to offense/defense balances and even on to nuclear weapons systems themselves. In this … Continued

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Artificial intelligence is capable of amplifying the risks of other technologies, and demands a reevaluation of the standard policy approach.

A prominent skeptic says that artificial intelligence is nothing to worry about. Here’s why he’s wrong.

The Defense Department is initiating a whole new approach to artificial intelligence, and maybe even to technology development and procurement. But in the long run, the new program’s most important implications may concern ethics and safety.

Over the course of this week, the Bulletin, in partnership with the Stanley Foundation, is publishing top experts on how to manage the explosion of military AI research and development around the world. Here’s what you need to know: The promise and peril of military applications of artificial intelligence Michael C Horowitz; @mchorowitz Published Monday, … Continued

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There is an urgency for countries to agree on common rules about the development, deployment, and use of emerging military tech in war.