RAND: The Risks of Autonomous Weapons Systems for Crisis Stability and Conflict Escalation in Future U.S.-Russia Confrontations
June 04, 2020
June 04, 2020
SANTA MONICA, California, June 4 -- RAND issued the following commentary:
What advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will mean for the future battlefield remains opaque. Mainline discourse is overly influenced by exaggerated forecasts such as that reflected in Russian President Vladimir Putin's often repeated 2017 declaration that "whoever becomes the leader" in the sphere of artificial intelligence "will become the ruler of the world" and a broadly similar cl . . .
What advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will mean for the future battlefield remains opaque. Mainline discourse is overly influenced by exaggerated forecasts such as that reflected in Russian President Vladimir Putin's often repeated 2017 declaration that "whoever becomes the leader" in the sphere of artificial intelligence "will become the ruler of the world" and a broadly similar cl . . .