Artificial Intelligence: A Revolution Waiting to Happen

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence is a rapidly emerging and influential technology that seeks to develop intelligent agents that can replace or improve on human performance in many aspects of human life. The scope for implementation is vast, and the world's leading technology is based not in the military, but the civilian sector. Historians have provided a context for understanding dramatic changes in the military, and have categorized this change by external and internal drivers. The Military Revolution and Revolution in Military Affairs are used as a vehicle to provide context to the emerging properties of Artificial Intelligence research. Analysis of AI is exams the related but significantly different theories of General and Narrow AI. At the current level of research, it is clear that Narrow AI has potential to develop into many important RMAs, limited by innovative concepts and organizational desire to change. General AI, on the other hand, looms in theoretical form as a potentially significant change to the social-military order.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 09, 2017
Accession Number
AD1041675

Entities

People

  • Stephen J. Bates

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • Civil War
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Military Applications
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Neural Networks
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy