National Security Seminar: Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Operations
CNA Talks: A National Security Podcast
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AI and the Nuclear Space
There's a couple of ways that you could envision AI potentially in the conventional space being used in ways that might be damaging to stability in the nuclear space. One could be if AI enabled one country to have a sort of better conventional advantage that caused other countries to rely more heavily on nuclear weapons as they're deterrent. Another concern could be that AI causes a conventional conflict to escalate in a way that might cause a country to look towards nuclear weapons. And a third potential avenue of concern could simply be that if conventional uses of AI just increased instability risk, it made it more likely that there were accidents or ways that countries might initiate conflict.
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