Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age.

For example, in the military domain, we wouldn't want to see the US and Chinese military deploy AI systems before they're ready, and then risking accidents in the process. What's your view on what seems like an inevitable march toward AI use in battlefield management B Scharre b :It's been a longstanding desire of the US military to use AI for battlefield management, dating back at least to the last 15 to 20 years. There are, we've seen, some evidence in a few instances of AI systems that are able to engage in strategic competition with humans, such Meta's AI system Cicero, that achieved human level performance in the game Diplomacy. [Extracted from the article]