We'll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war

• Published in: Journal of strategic studies Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 116 - 146
• Main Authors: Hunter, Cameron, Bowen, Bleddyn E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Routledge 02.01.2024; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Clausewitz; Commands; decision-making; Decisions; Logic; Machine learning; Military aid; Optimism; problem of induction; Strategy; tactics; technological determinism; War; Clausewitz; Artificial Intelligence (AI); decision-making; Strategy; tactics; problem of induction; technological determinism

Military AI optimists predict future AI assisting or making command decisions. We instead argue that, at a fundamental level, these predictions are dangerously wrong. The nature of war demands decisions based on abductive logic, whilst machine learning (or 'narrow AI') relies on inductive...