My latest for @vox.com on the weird new global war on terror www.vox.com/politics/470...

All Star Wars is footnotes to Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure

incredible film

Have suggestions or tips for more coverage of AI and nukes? Get in touch. joshua.keating [at] vox [dot] com
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See also, the fantastic panel I moderated last month in at Outrider’s annual reporting summit with the great Sylvia Mishra and Jane Kim Coloseus youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=lkxJo6IL4ZM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY

Prefer audio? I discussed these issues in the context of the movie “House of Dynamite” on a recent episode of Vox’s Today Explained.
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Read more here. It’s the first installment in a @vox.com series on the intersection of AI and nuclear weapons supported by the
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The concern, for many experts and former military officers, is that as AI is increasingly integrated into the system—and as tech companies sell the Pentagon on more and more automation—it will end up shaping human decisions, even if it’s not making them.

While we don’t know for sure what role AI currently plays in command and control systems, we do know that commanders want more of it for threat identification and data processing. Which makes sense! That kind of defined data set is exactly what AI’s good at.

But is that really the problem? In a new piece for @vox.com , I suggest it’s just a part of it. www.vox.com/politics/468...

In recent years, there’s been a surprising amount of advocacy and diplomacy around the idea that humans, not machines, should be the ones in charge of making the decisions to use humankind’s most dangerous weapons.