Artificial Intelligence Arms Race: Fundamentals and Applications

By Fouad Sabry

What Is Artificial Intelligence Arms Race

A race to develop and deploy lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) is an example of a military artificial intelligence arms race, which might involve two or more states competing against one another. Since the middle of the 2010s, numerous observers have observed the emergence of an arms race between global superpowers for superior military artificial intelligence. This arms race is being driven by escalating geopolitical and military tensions. An AI arms race between the United States and China is often framed as part of a larger AI cold war between the two countries.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Artificial intelligence arms race

Chapter 2: Autonomous robot

Chapter 3: Military robot

Chapter 4: Stuart J. Russell

Chapter 5: AI takeover

Chapter 6: Lethal autonomous weapon

Chapter 7: Future of Life Institute

Chapter 8: Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

Chapter 9: Existential risk from artificial general intelligence

Chapter 10: Regulation of artificial intelligence

(II) Answering the public top questions about artificial intelligence arms race.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of artificial intelligence arms race in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of artificial intelligence arms race' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of artificial intelligence arms race.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: Jul 2, 2023

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Chapter 1: Artificial intelligence arms race

An arms race in the field of military artificial intelligence refers to a rivalry or race between two or more governments to see which can equip its armed forces with the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence (AI). Since the middle of the 2010s, many analysts have noted the emergence of a global arms race, the AI arms race, between great powers for better military artificial intelligence. This arms race has coincided with and is being driven by the increasing geopolitical and military tensions of what some have called a Second Cold War. The storyline of the AI Cold War, in which tensions between the United States and China lead to a cold war fought in the realm of artificial intelligence technology, provides the framework for the AI weapons race.

The race to create and deploy deadly autonomous weapon systems, sometimes known as slaughterbots or killer robots, is what is known as the AI arms race, and it is being fought by world powers. These are autonomous weapon systems that eliminate the need for human interaction by locating, selecting, and eliminating human targets using artificial intelligence (AI).

According to Stephen Cave of the Leverhulme Centre, the dangers of a race to develop artificial intelligence are threefold:

each with the possibility of global repercussions.

The first potential hazard is that even if there was no race, the language that surrounds the race is inherently risky.

The rhetoric around the AI race and the importance of being first does not encourage the type of thoughtful deliberation with stake holders required to produce AI technology that is the most broadly beneficial to society:1-2

According to Russian General Viktor Bondarev, who is the commander-in-chief of the Russian air force, Russia began research on AI-guided missiles as early as February of 2017. These missiles would be able to decide to alter targets while they were in flight.

In an effort to achieve global technological preeminence, China is pursuing a strategy of strategic fusion between its military and civic sectors regarding artificial intelligence (AI).

In 2014, Chuck Hagel, who had previously served as Secretary of Defense, proposed the Third Offset Strategy, which said that fast advancements in artificial intelligence would define the next generation of combat.

In 2015, the government of the United Kingdom voiced opposition to a ban on lethal autonomous weapons, arguing that international humanitarian law already provides sufficient regulation for this area. However, the government also stated that any weapons used by the United Kingdom's armed forces would be under human oversight and control.

Harpy, Israel's anti-radar fire and forget drone, is meant to be launched by ground soldiers, and then to fly over an area autonomously in order to detect and destroy radar that meets certain predetermined criteria. These automated vehicles have a role in border patrol and protection.

Since its introduction in 2010, the South Korean Super aEgis II machine gun has seen usage not just in South Korea but also in Middle Eastern countries. At a range of four kilometers, it is able to locate, follow, and kill a moving target. Even though the technology has the potential to function without any involvement from a human being, in reality there have been precautions added that need user input. According to a producer from South Korea, Our weapons don't sleep, as people must. They have the ability to see in the dark, while people do not. Because of this, our technology fills in the gaps in human competence, and the organization's goal is to arrive to a point where our software can determine if a target is friendly, hostile, civilian, or military. .

The stance taken by the European Parliament is that humans should retain control over deadly autonomous weapons and the ability to make decisions about their use.

An expert on artificial intelligence named Steve Omohundro issued a warning in 2014 that an arms race for autonomous weapons is already taking place.

Emerging as a new challenge for international law is the question of how to regulate autonomous weapons on a global scale.

Over 26,000 citizens, including physicist Stephen Hawking, Tesla magnate Elon Musk, Apple's Steve Wozniak, and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, as well as over 4,600 artificial intelligence researchers, including Stuart Russell, Bart Selman, and Francesca Rossi, signed an open letter in 2015 that was published by the Future of Life Institute. The letter called for the prohibition of lethal autonomous weapons systems. The Future of Life Institute has also released two fictional films, Slaughterbots (2017) and Slaughterbots - if human: kill() (2021), to warn the world about the dangers of autonomous weapons and the urgent need for a ban. Both of these films have gone viral, and the Future of Life Institute hopes that they will have the desired effect.

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