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Shashank Joshi
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A quick thread with some of the papers and articles on AI and war that I found most useful when writing this piece.
First of all, @mchorowitz's excellent paper for @TXNatSecReview on how holder theories of the diffusion and adoption of military technology might apply to AI, and the wider impact on the balance of power tnsr.org/2018/05/artifi…
For @Livermore_Lab, Zachary Davis discusses AI applications on the battlefield, with a focus on regional and strategic stability
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Two detailed studies by @SIPRIorg, one older one on autonomy in weapon systems (sipri.org/sites/default/…) and the other recent on AI and strategic–mostly, nuclear–stability (sipri.org/sites/default/…)
Wide-ranging and useful @CRS4Congress report on AI and national security, most recently updated by @kelleysayler fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec…
.@ICRC on machine learning and armed conflict, which goes beyond the issue of autonomous weapons alone icrc.org/en/download/fi…
.@paul_scharre on AI safety: "the real danger is not that [each country] will fall behind its competitors in AI but that the perception of a race will prompt everyone to rush to deploy unsafe AI systems" foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-…
.@EBKania on the PLA's use of AI for war-gaming jamestown.org/program/learni…
@EBKania A few others, too. @kennethpayne01 on whether AI represents a revolution in strategic affairs: iiss.org/publications/s…
@EBKania @kennethpayne01 .@RikeFranke on military AI in the European context: ecfr.eu/publications/s…
@EBKania @kennethpayne01 @RikeFranke And finally, this lovely piece on the 1960s/1970s Igloo White programme, which has some useful and cautionary parallels to modern ideas of AI-enabled, automated command-and-control airforcemag.com/MagazineArchiv…
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