Leveraging AI to Mitigate Civilian Harm

Abstract

Over the last decade, there has been great debate about the introduction of AI to warfare. However, that debate has been primarily about how to make sure that AI applications are not indiscriminate in warfare. There is another important question, in light of international law and the principle of humanity: how can we use AI to protect civilians from harm? And how can we lessen the infliction of suffering, injury, and destruction overall through the use of this emerging technology? This report represents a concrete first step toward meeting this goal. We find that AI can be used to help address patterns of harm and thus reduce the likelihood of harm. We then discuss some potential areas of focus militaries could prioritizein order to reduce risks to civilians overall.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1181578

Entities

People

  • Andrew Ilachinski
  • Larry Lewis

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Automata Theory
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Vision
  • Dimensionality Reduction
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Military Applications
  • Military Science
  • Network Science
  • Neural Networks
  • Ontologies
  • Supervised Machine Learning

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

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