2023 Summer Recommended Reading with Brigadier General Chad T. Manske, USAF (Ret.) Continues with a focus on Military History. Brigadier General Manske was the former Commandant of National War College, is a prolific reader, author and publisher of dozens of book reviews and articles, and is the Special Advisor to the NDU Foundation CEO (https://ndufoundation.org/bio/staff/manske_chad).
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming its own separate war fighting domain, cleanly shooting off from the cyber realm. Deep fakes, bots, synthetic learning and other applications are so realistic that it’s hard to differentiate fact from fiction. This will increasingly be the norm and is problematic when it comes to the weaponization of such tools. This, and other propositions, are well-articulated in Paul Scharre’s new book on AI. AI is already having profound effects on world rivals—the US, China and Russia—and its game-changing technology advancements will exacerbate these conditions. Scharre argues that four key elements, or battlegrounds as he calls them—data, computing power, talent and institutions—serve as the catalysts for AI. Nations that capitalize on these four battlegrounds will hold the high ground whether they do so singly or in combination. AI’s tools, when programmed properly, alleviate burdensome human time constraints allowing for magnitudes faster repetitions and learning when algorithms are written and released appropriately. Governments would be wise to channel and use these tools to enhance national security as an adjunct to their other tools and resources.
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Brigadier General, USAF (Retired) Chad Manske was the former Commandant of National War College, is a prolific reader, author and publisher of dozens of book reviews and articles, and is the Special Advisor to the NDU Foundation CEO (https://ndufoundation.org/bio/staff/manske_chad).