The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students
Approaching Artificial Intelligence in Military Contexts: Security, Strategy, and (In)Stability
PAST EVENTMon., Mar. 21, 2022 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Rubenstein Building - David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB
Please join the Belfer Center Cyber Project with predoctoral fellow Amy Ertan as she presents her published co-authored work alongside Maggie Gray, Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy in the Military: An Overview of NATO Member States’ Strategies and Deployment with the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCDCOE) as part of a two-part report series.
What does artificial intelligence (AI) mean for future warfare? From the DoD’s Strategy to NATO’s Emerging and Disruptive Technologies Roadmap, recent years have seen an intense evolution in understanding, research, and rapid deployment of AI capabilities within the military sphere. This talk focuses first on how the North Atlantic Trade Organisation (NATO) has approached military AI innovation. The presentation will then explore national approaches to AI, drawing on Amy Ertan's doctoral research in which current and former military, technical and policy-focused experts were interviewed on themes including technical security challenges, hype, private-sector military AI innovation, and state perceptions on military "AI arms race" dynamics.
You can read the NATO CCDCOE report here: https://ccdcoe.org/library/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-autonomy-in-the-military-an-overview-of-nato-member-states-strategies-and-deployment/
Photos Courtesy of Amy Ertan and Maggie Gray
Co-Authors Amy Ertan and Maggie Gray