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WILL ROBOTS FIGHT THE NEXT WAR? U.S. AND RUSSIA BRING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO THE BATTLEFIELD
Artificial intelligence has increasingly been integrated
into the weapons systems of the world's leading militaries, and at least one
expert has said the futuristic technology may soon be the subject of a new Cold
War.
In a piece published Tuesday by The Conversation, North
Dakota State University assistant professor Jeremy Straub argued that unlike
the nuclear weapons that dominated much of the 21st century arms race between
the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the use of cyberweapons and artificial
intelligence largely remained "fair game," even as tensions again
flared between the rivals. Both countries have invested heavily in developing
new tools to wage war on this new front, but Russia particularly has sought to
use it as an opportunity to upstage the more conventionally powerful U.S.
"Now, more than 30 years after the end of the Cold War,
the U.S. and Russia have decommissioned tens of thousands of nuclear weapons.
However, tensions are growing. Any modern-day cold war would include
cyberattacks and nuclear powersâ?? involvement in alliesâ?? conflicts," wrote
Straub, who was also associate director of the university's Institute for Cyber
Security Education and Research, in his article.
"Itâ??s already happening," he added.
The U.S. has repeatedly accused Russia of conducting
cyberattacks on targets in the West, going so far as to charge the Kremlin with
hacking into Democratic Party servers in a bid to release information that
would compromise the 2016 presidential election. The U.K. and Germany have also
complained about alleged Russian hacking, and the latter formed a new military
branch last year specifically dedicated to countering cyber ops, which Straub
has previously warned could soon involve AI-generated assaults that would
devastate current defenses.
Germany's Cyber and Information Space Command joined Western
military pact NATO in preparing for the Cyber Coalition exercise last November
as the U.S.-led alliance sought to boost its electronic warfighting abilities.
The U.S. military has also expressed concern that it was falling behind the
pace of an ever-changing battlefield, and experts have urged the U.S. to
quickly catch up.
As part of an ambitious effort to restore his military to
its former Soviet glory and likely beyond that, Russian President Vladimir
Putin has prioritized not only electronic warfare, but also the use of
artificial intelligence, which he famously called "the future, not only
for Russia, but for all humankind" in a September 2017 back-to-school speech
to students in Yaroslavl.
"Whomever becomes a leader in this sphere will be the
master of the world," Putin said. "And I would very much like it that
there is no monopoly of this in any specific pair of hands."
Innovations in weaponized artificial intelligence have
already taken many forms. The technology is used in the complex metrics that
allow cruise missiles and drones to find targets hundreds of miles away, as
well as the systems deployed to detect and counter them. Russia has also used
artificial intelligence to build powerful exoskeletons that give soldiers a
near superhuman advantage and to develop literal war-fighting robots that can
dual-wield guns, drive vehicles and potentially even travel to space.
As the U.S. employed groundbreaking artificial intelligence
in its own weapon systems, such as the advanced, yet oft-troubled, F-35
Lightning Jet II, it faced a new challenger that also sought to close the
capabilities gap between its own military and that of the U.S.: Chinese
President Xi Jinping. Xi has committed billions to becoming a global pioneer in
artificial intelligence and has made major strides in recent years. Chinese
automation in the defense industry may also triple the countryâ??s production of
bombs and shells by 2028.