AI is radically changing the way states challenge one another. Major powers should pursue arms control in AI, as they have for nuclear weapons, says Henry Kissinger in his new book “The Age of AI”
will change society is by redefining the basis of knowledge. “Whether we consider it a tool, a partner, or a rival, [] will alter our experience as reasoning beings and permanently change our relationship with reality,” the authors write. “The result will be a new epoch.” If uttered by a Soylent-quaffing coder, that sentiment might be dismissed as hyperbole. Coming from authors of this pedigree, it ought to be taken seriously.represents the end of the Enlightenment.
Hitherto in the era of nuclear weapons, the central objective of national-security policy has been deterrence. That rests on the premise that a rival state’s capabilities are visible, its doctrine known and its actions foreseeable. The rise ofsystems undermines those consoling assumptions, since responses may diverge from human expectations, and to disclose capabilities may be to forfeit them.
The recommendation for policymakers is realism. Since the technology cannot be un-invented, the book calls on America to develop and shape the military applications ofrather than surrendering the field to countries that do not share its values. Some of the new capabilities will involve non-violent tasks, such as managing logistics and helping wounded servicemen. At the same time, the authors write, major powers should pursue arms control in, as they have for nuclear weapons.
Living with this technology will be tough. Based, as they are, on correlations and elaborate statistics, rather than on a sense of causality,’s decisions may seem otherworldly; when the stakes are high, they must be diligently validated. And asbecomes more widely used, and makes findings that surpass human understanding—whether concerning the laws of science, medicine, managing businesses or navigating roads—society may seem at once to be hurtling towards knowledge and retreating from it.
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