33 Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Culture

Theo Farrell and Kenneth Payne

DOI: 10.4324/9781003010302-37

Introduction

How does strategic culture shape the development and use of military technologies and vice versa? In this chapter, we consider these questions in the context of artificial intelligence (AI), a technology that is widely anticipated to transform warfare as well as societies and civilian economies more broadly.

As we enter the 2020s, AI is already capable of remarkable feats, with new accomplishments arriving almost daily. The strength of AI lies in pattern recognition, searching through huge volumes of data for useful connections. This has allowed a narrow, modular intelligence that, in certain domains, outperforms humans ...

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