Sunday, May 5, 2019

Should Artificial Intelligence Play An Important Role In Nuclear Weapons Command And Control Decisions?

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Jaganath Sankaran, War On The Rocks: A Different Use for Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Weapons Command and Control

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to change the way the United States and other nations operate their nuclear command and control. For instance, a recent RAND report surveyed AI and nuclear security experts and notes that “AI is expected to become more widely used in aids to decisionmaking” in command-and-control platforms. The report also indicated the possibility that narrow AI could in the future act as a “trusted advisor” in nuclear command and control. In this article, I will examine the advice such an advisor might provide to decision-makers in a nuclear crisis, focusing on the possibility that an algorithm could offer compelling evidence that an incoming nuclear alert was a false alarm, thereby counseling restraint rather than confrontation.

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WNU Editor: Artificial intelligence handling our nuclear command and control. What could possibly go wrong? :)

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