AI will transform the character of warfare
Technology will make war faster and more opaque. It could also prove destabilising
THE COMPUTER was born in war and by war. Colossus was built in 1944 to crack Nazi codes. By the 1950s computers were organising America’s air defences. In the decades that followed, machine intelligence played a small part in warfare. Now it is about to become pivotal. Just as the civilian world is witnessing rapid progress in the power and spread of artificial intelligence (AI), so too must the military world prepare for an onrush of innovation. As much as it transforms the character of war, it could also prove destabilising.
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This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “War and AI”
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