Singularity on the Battlefield? AI, US-China Competition, and the Future of Warfare
All are welcome. Warm lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
While the U.S. military possessed an early advantage in the technologies critical to information-age warfare, primacy in AI, likely integral in future warfare, could remain contested between the U.S. and China. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) anticipates that the advent of AI could fundamentally change the character of warfare, resulting in a transformation from today’s “informatized” ways of warfare to future “intelligentized” warfare, in which AI will be critical to military power. As the PLA competes with the U.S. military to leverage AI to enhance its future capabilities, the introduction of AI into military systems raises concerns of an “AI arms race” that could exacerbate challenges of crisis management and even risks to strategic stability.
Date: 15 November 2017, 12:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar room A
Speaker: Elsa B. Kania (Center for a New American Security)
Organising department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Organiser: Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)
Part of: Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
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Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elsa-b-kania-ai-us-china-competition-and-the-future-of-warfare-tickets-39618211136
Audience: Public
Editors: James Baldwin, Margo Kirk