TY - CHAP A1 - Schörnig, Niklas T1 - Artificial intelligence in the military: more than killer robots T2 - Whither artificial intelligence? Debating the policy challenges of the upcoming transformation ; 3 N2 - "Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the future. [...] Whoever leads in AI will rule the world" (Russia Today, 2018). This was the central message that President Vladimir Putin conveyed to more than one million Russian school students in September 2017. He also promised to ensure that Russian knowledge of AI would benefit the world. However, the competition in this field is already playing itself out globally. Besides Russia, the USA and China are already in the race, with China, for example, having recently published an ambitious AI strategy, namely the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" (Webster et al., 2018). This document predicts China’s world leadership in the AI field as soon as 2030. The EU and several other countries – among them Germany in the autumn of 2018 - have followed suit with their own AI strategies. ... Y1 - 2018 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51037 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-510377 SN - 2626-9597 SP - 37 EP - 42 PB - Mercator Science-Policy Fellowship-Programme CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -