Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Kareem Ayoub; Kenneth Payne

doi:10.1080/01402390.2015.1088838

Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Kareem Ayoub, Kenneth Payne

Defence Studies

University of Oxford

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Abstract

We argue that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will, in the very near future, have a profound impact on the conduct of strategy and will be hugely disruptive of existing power balances. To do so, we review current and evolving capabilities in ‘narrow’, modular AI that is optimised to perform in a particular environment, and explore its military potential across a range of operational and strategic activities. We then review the psychological foundations of strategy and explore the ways in which such AI will transform human decision-making. Lastly, we look ahead to the more distant prospect of a general AI.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	793-819
Journal	The Journal of Strategic Studies
Volume	39
Issue number	5-6
Early online date	23 Nov 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2015.1088838
Publication status	Published - Oct 2016

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