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A practitioner's perspective on how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies could change the role of nuclear weapons in international relations. Geist argues that artificial intelligence could make a huge impact on deterrence and strategic stability even if it does not render retaliatory forces vulnerable.

A significant gap exists between the expectations and fears of public opinion, policymakers, and global defense communities about artificial intelligence (AI) and its actual military capabilities, particularly in the nuclear sphere. The misconceptions that exist today are largely caused by the hyperbolic depictions of AI in popular culture and science fiction, most prominently the Skynet system in The Terminator. Misrepresentations of the potential opportunities and risks in the military sphere (or "military AI") can obscure constructive and crucial debate on these topics—specifically, the challenge of balancing the potential operational, tactical, and strategic benefits of leveraging AI, while managing the risks posed to stability and nuclear security. This article demystifies the hype surrounding AI in the context of nuclear weapons and, more broadly, future warfare. Specifically, it highlights the potential, multifaceted intersections of this disruptive technology with nuclear stability. The inherently destabilizing effects of military AI may exacerbate tension between nuclear-armed great powers, especially China and the United States, but not for the reasons you may think.

In any future war the military subordinate commanded to use nuclear weapons risks being punished for mutiny if he disobeys, & hanged by the victor as a war criminal if he obeys. The plea of superior orders would not be a defence if the order could be considered as manifestly criminal under internat'l law. But no conventional or customary law dealing specifically with nuclear weapons exists, & the 'principles of humanity,' in view of the disregard for moral consideration in 20th cent warfare, are no longer ascertainable. Since the 'dictates of the public conscience' have seemingly surrendered to military expediency, the individual will be forced back on his own personal sense of right. He will have to weigh the possibility of the adversary's world triumph against the danger of race suicide. He will have to decide whether any single individual should make this fateful choice for all of humanity. IPSA.