Singularity Race: Artificial Super Intelligence as Military Revolution

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing field with governments and militaries around the world increasingly incorporating it into their technologies to create new capabilities. AI has the potential to eventually surpass human intellectual capabilities and obtain Super Intelligence. This thesis examines the implications of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) and how an adversary to the United States could employ it to gain an asymmetric strategic advantage. This paper finds that ASI poses an extreme risk to future operations in the mid and possibly near term and makes recommendations for how the Department of Defense should think about and incorporate the threat of ASI into strategic planning.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 10, 2022
Accession Number
AD1210070

Entities

People

  • Kyle R. Hopkins

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Automata Theory
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Mining
  • Disinformation
  • Employment
  • National Security
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Network Science
  • Neural Networks
  • Psychology
  • Recreation

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

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