Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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But I see restrictions on semiconductor sales to China as likely to matter more 3 to 5 years from now. The book, in many ways, is an invitation to open up regional discussions on AI adoption and relative national power, so long as one considers the technological elephants in the room: the United States and China. Other MENA states, like neighboring Oman, are taking notice of the economic knock-on effects of AI adoption, unveiling a new national economic initiative to facilitate AI adoption by governmental institutions and to increase science and technology investment opportunities. Also, while the book isn’t very technical in general (a good thing) there were a few parts that were more technical than I wanted (e.

Excellent writing on how to protect against espionage and intellectual property theft from foreign actors.Far from a predetermined landscape, “governments have choices in how they respond to the AI revolution. None of this is to exaggerate the hand that open-source AI is dealing to tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Open AI. The book does not fall prey to much of the headline-worthy hype surrounding AI that generative systems, such as ChatGPT, have unleashed. Here's one cautionary line: "Militaries are competing to develop and field a technology that is unreliable and insecure. The reader is reminded at appropriate intervals that machine learning-based systems are fundamentally limited, constrained to the types of data they are trained on and narrowly applicable, are generally brittle, and lack after-the-fact explainability.

Deep fakes, bots, synthetic learning and other applications are so realistic that it’s hard to differentiate fact from fiction.Furthermore, so many full-time jobs are being recast as contracted, fire-at-will gigs, “not a break from the norm as much as an extension of it, a continuation of corporations finding new ways to limit their obligations to workers. My primary reason for denying a star is that the book provides a somewhat murky definition of what AI is in this context. Indeed, even within Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, a recent McKinsey survey of senior executives, board directors, and industry experts found that “organization and talent,” broadly construed, is the greatest challenge to commercial AI adoption. On the other hand, I really appreciated the specific examples of existing AI systems’ capabilities, limitations (the somersaulting soldier will stick with me! Four Battlegrounds thus does not devote extended attention to the framework’s implications for the MENA region.

AIs will likely have the capacity to coordinate a much larger set of units, which will presumably enable new tactics.China technological decoupling is an unavoidable risk for MENA states, triggering, as Mohammed Soliman observes, “a growing digital divide” between a subregion of Gulf states, North African economies, and the Levant “that exacerbates the challenges of finding a digitally capable workforce. Among the topics explored are facial recognition, military drones, government databases, public camera footage, and even DNA phenotyping.

The book hedges on exactly which forms AI will take as technology continues to develop and proliferate. I. expert Paul Scharre offers a contemporary exploration of artificial intelligence that will make skeptics worried but also offers solutions to how we should move forward as a species in this new wild west of technological development. S.-based technology multinationals — including IBM and Google — begin modestly investing in the continent’s AI potential, seeking to link technological innovation in public health and medicine with a burgeoning, tech-savvy youth demographic. Many of the examples involve generative AI and I think it might be better to define these techniques as advanced predictive analytics.

The four components of AI vary in importance not just in terms of how state-of-the-art AI systems are built over time, but also in terms of how incentivized states are to innovate their way beyond them. When I spotted this on the new book shelf, I seized on what will probably be in my top five reads of the year. The tactic of "poisoning" enemy AI by corrupting shared datasets or creating adversarial input seem likely to become major strategies (ch 29). Readers knowledgeable about computer science will find it clarifying, while others will gain immense understanding of an often opaque if important subject. The author's ability to demystify the workings of AI for the average reader is commendable, making complex concepts accessible without compromising on detail.