Risks of Weaponry Integrated with Artificial Intelligence

Assessing the risks associated with automated weapon platforms is a major theme in Robert Latiff's book, Future Peace. While the development of artificial intelligence has been an aspect of weapon design over the last three decades, the newest forms of this technology that are based on machine learning, have considerably raised the stakes, leading to heated debates regarding lethal autonomous weapon systems and algorithmic warfare. With good reason, Latiff points out that the high-velocity of weapon systems that are integrated with this technology renders their effects increasingly difficult to manage for the service-personnel responsible for targeting decisions in combat settings. Safety must be thought anew in the age of AI, especially when new weapon systems are rolled out in an international context in which states are actively pursuing technological superiority over their peers.