We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war

Published on July 16, 2024

The Military's Recruitment of AI Has Already Begun

Military AI optimists predict future AI assisting or making command decisions. We instead argue that, at a fundamental level, these predictions are dangerously wrong. The nature of war demands decisions based on abductive logic, whilst machine learning (or ‘narrow AI’) relies on inductive logic. 

Link to the article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2023.2241648

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