Is AI About to Automate War? With Anthony King
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. In today's episode, host Adam McCauley sits down with Professor Anthony King to shed light on AI and the rise of the military tech complex. King is a professor of war studies and director of the Strategy and Security Institute at the University of Excel. He wants to debunk the science fiction-tinged narrative of AI's military potential, arguing that AI will not replace human strategic judgment in war.
Instead, he takes a more grounded approach, exploring the actual applications of AI by the armed forces over the last decade. Let's join our host, Adam Macaulay, now, with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm your host, Adam Macaulay. The latest advanced technologies seem to emerge as solutions to near impossible human problems.
These technologies, or technological fixes, tend to bubble up at the sharp frontiers of knowledge, often precisely where uncertainty about the future casts its shadow over the present. In recent years, the story of artificial intelligence has featured narratives around the coming singularity, those first warnings of an emergent superintelligence. and in our present age of mounting geopolitical tensions, as a technology that might revolutionize, automate and mechanize how we fight war itself. Without relying on the trope of Skynet or feeding the furor around Terminator style war bots, our guest today, Anthony King, leans on evidence, investigation, and first hand testimony to better understand how AI is influencing some of our most critical institutions. notably those of the military and national defense.
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