Artificial Intellegince Is The The Newest Arms Race

A Predator and Reaper operating out of Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan. USAF

Jacob Scott, The War Room: The Iron Tringle: Technology, Strategy, Ethics, And The Future Of Killing Machines

Fear of an artificial intelligence disadvantage is pushing the U.S. and other powers into another arms race

Strategic leaders have wrestled with the use of various types of weapons and their employment throughout history. The crossbow, cannons, snipers, landmines, submarines, bombers, and many other weapons provoked episodes of moral reflection and angst. The U.S. developed nuclear weapons despite the significant moral concerns those weapons raised, and then employed them – a decision that remains controversial to this day.

Early in the Cold War, General Omar Bradley, then Chief of Staff of the Army, delivered an Armistice Day speech in Boston, Massachusetts on November 10, 1948. In his address, he drew attention to the tension inherent in developing and possessing the weapons of devastating destruction that had brought World War II to a close:

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