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How AI will revolutionize warfare

By Michael Hirsh

11 Apr 2023 · 6 min read

AI-driven software could make conflicts less lethal, Foreign Policy reports. More worryingly, decision-makers could end up relying far too much on the new technology—even when it comes to nuclear war.

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When it comes to advanced artificial intelligence, much of the debate has focused on whether white-collar workers are now facing the sort of extinction-level threat that the working class once did with robotics. And while it’s suddenly likely that AI will be capable of duplicating a good part of what lawyers, accountants, teachers, programmers, and—yes—journalists do, that’s not even where the most significant revolution is likely to occur.

The latest AI—known as generative pre-trained transformers (GPT)—promises to utterly transform the geopolitics of war and deterrence. It will do so in ways that are not necessarily comforting, and which may even turn existential.

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