Military A.I. escalates naval disputes to nuclear war.
Carlsson et al. 20, *Moa Peldán Carlsson, Research Assistant on emerging military and security technologies. *Dr Petr Topychkanov, Senior Researcher in the SIPRI Nuclear Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme. *Dr Lora Saalman, Associate Senior Fellow within SIPRI’s Armament and Disarmament and Conflict, Peace and Security research areas and a Senior Fellow in the Global Cooperation in Cyberspace Program at the EastWest Institute. *Fei Su, Researcher with SIPRI’s China and Asia Security Programme. *Dr Vincent Boulanin is a Senior Researcher on emerging military and security technologies. (June 2020, “Introduction”, Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk, pg. 4, https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep25355.7)
The incorporation of AI into military systems could also pose new challenges as far as nuclear risk reduction is concerned, as it could increase the risk of escalation into a nuclear conflict either accidentally (i.e. as a result of technical failure or unauthorized use) or inadvertently (i.e. as ‘the unintended consequence of a decision to fight a conventional war’).17 In politically sensitive situations, such as an intentional or unintentional collision at sea, increasing reliance on AI systems could turn out to be highly problematic. Such a dependence could lead humans to take premature or misguided decisions and actions that could trigger an armed conflict, and possibly even a nuclear war.