FIN 639 AI and National Security PDF

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In this course, you will review 2 to 3 subject per class since it is 3 hours long, they will help you for the midterm, this is the number 1...

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AI and National Security • •

The U.S. government has recently sponsored several significant studies on the future of AI and its implications for governance and national security. Most of this progress is due to advances in the AI sub-field of machine learning. For example, existing machine learning technology could enable high degrees of automation in labor-intensive activities such as satellite imagery analysis and cyber defense.

Military Superiority • For military superiority, progress in AI will both enable new capabilities and make existing capabilities affordable to a broader range of actors. • For example, commercially available, AI-enabled technology (such as long-range drone package delivery) may give weak states and non-state actors access to a type of long-range precision strike capability. • In the cyber domain, activities that currently require lots of high-skill labor, such as Advanced Persistent Threat operations, may in the future be largely automated and easily available on the black market. AI life in 2030 •

Contrary to the more fantastic predictions for AI in the popular press, the Study Panel found no cause for concern that AI is an imminent threat to humankind. No machines with self-sustaining long-term goals and intent have been developed, nor are they likely to be developed in the near future. Instead, increasingly useful applications of AI, with potentially profound positive impacts on our society and economy are likely to emerge between now and 2030....