The Unavoidable Technology: How Artificial Intelligence Can Strengthen Nuclear Stability

Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing at a rapid pace—both the technology itself and its applications. It is becoming unavoidable in both the civilian and military domains and will soon impact numerous areas of civilian and military life. In July 2020, for example, countries such as Colombia and Russia applied facial recognition technology, a form of artificial intelligence, to combat the coronavirus by detecting whether someone was not wearing a mask or had a high temperature through the use of thermal cameras and sounding an alarm. That same month, Open AI, a California company leading in AI technology, released the software GPT-3, a text generator that can mimic human creativity to write convincing essays, emails, or tweets. Global AI-generated revenue is projected to climb from US$643.7 million in 2016 to US$36.8 billion in 2025, a factor of almost 60 times greater. Both the United States and its NATO allies have placed new emphasis on understanding the civilian and military applications of technological