How AI Will Revolutionize Warfare

Published on April 12, 2023

The most revolutionary impacts of the artificial intelligence boom currently underway, argues Michael Hirsh, is not in commercial applications, but in warfare. Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPTs), which are now taking the commercial world by storm through applications like ChatGPT and its spinoffs, will ‘utterly transform the geopolitics of war and deterrence.’

Detailing the litany of advancements in AI-enabled weaponry in recent years, Hirsh draws attention to successes in AI-directed drones, AI-powered jets, and even ‘autonomous tank-like vehicles.’ He lays out a vision of future armed forces in which ‘drones outnumber people’ by hefty margins. Most strikingly, Hirsh envisions deterrence and command and control transformed by AI, with humans increasingly reliant on AI systems’ assessments for decision-making.

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