Artificial intelligence in the military: more than killer robots

  • "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. ...

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Author:Niklas Schörnig
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-510377
ISSN:2626-9597
Parent Title (English):Whither artificial intelligence? Debating the policy challenges of the upcoming transformation ; 3
Publisher:Mercator Science-Policy Fellowship-Programme
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of Completion:2018
Year of first Publication:2018
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2019/09/05
Page Number:6
First Page:37
Last Page:42
HeBIS-PPN:453727700
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht