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DSD Research Seminar Series: Shall we play a game? Using artificial intelligence to simulate strategic decision-making.

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By Kenneth Ray Payne
| King's College London
Speaker: Kenneth Payne, Professor of Strategy, Defence Studies Department Can Artificial Intelligence make strategic choices, and do they look anything like human ones? Until now, decisions about and in war have been taken almost entirely by humans. Outside of sci-fi films, like WarGames, computers haven't been anywhere near sophisticated enough to do much in strategy. Here, I outline our ongoing research into machine decision-making in military scenarios.
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Will machines make strategy?

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By Kenneth Ray Payne
| Engelsberg Ideas
On the streets of San Francisco recently, Waymo’s ubiquitous autonomous cars hit a snag. By gently placing a traffic cone on a car’s bonnet, protestors discovered a way to confuse Waymo’s algorithm, stranding its cars in the middle of the street. It was a beautiful illustration of a more general problem.
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Autonomous weapons and the dehumanisation of conflict

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By Kenneth Ray Payne
| kennethpayne.uk
I recently addressed the autonomous weapons gathering hosted by the Austrian government. There were 140-odd states there, along with a large audience of interested third parties. I think it fair to say that the balance of opinion among the latter was against AI weapons, and perhaps more broadly against the use of AI in national security. Sentiment favoured regulation, international treaty, and even an outright ban. I was the skunk at the party.
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