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Digital Escalation Potential: How Does AI Operate at the Limits of Reason?

By Axel Siegemund

In our high-tech world, both war and peace are a consequence of technology. Current studies have found that AI-controlled weapons systems have a high potential for escalation. We should therefore assume that artificial intelligence will not encourage us to seek peace. Rather, we should pay attention to threats to freedom that arise through the intransparent actions of AI – including also to the users of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). In view of the trend toward autonomous decision-making, regulation and bans are necessary political responses to technological developments if we want to strengthen human agency.

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