What are the potential risks associated with artificial intelligence? Might any of these be catastrophic or even existential? Five RAND researchers with diverse perspectives weigh in.
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Out today on the Irregular Warfare Initiative podcast: it was a real privilege to join Chris Maier, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC), to talk SOF's potential to disrupt the strategic aims of America's great power rivals. We explored how strategic disruption campaigns by SOF succeed by delaying, degrading, or denying an adversary's ability to achieve core interests through their preferred strategies, creating strategic openings for friendly instruments of national power across the DIME. We also talked historical examples of how proactive, disruptive campaigns by SOF and similar forces in Bosnia, Iraq, Central Africa, and even Tibet offer lessons for future challenges posed by China and Russia, drawing from extensive RAND research on the subject. Big thanks to the team at Modern War Institute at West Point and Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) for having me on, this was a lot of fun to do! Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eVHR9H9a Report here: https://lnkd.in/eauJ4RKX cc: USSOCOM Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) Kyle Atwell Mike Lwin Benjamin Jebb U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) - US Army Mick Crnkovich
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AI has drastically expanded the scope of possible disinformation campaigns. These technologies could enhance China's ability to conduct information operations at an unprecedented scale and sophistication.
AI-Powered Information Warfare in the Indo-Pacific
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"Supporting Ukraine isn't charity. It is a way for the United States to reassert itself at a time when its influence is faltering. It is a golden opportunity to cement the support of U.S. allies and partners—its greatest advantage over Russia and China. Support to Ukraine isn't just a good deed, it's also a good deal."
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Gaza faces an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis. Getting more aid into Gaza is just one challenge, says RAND's Raphael Cohen. The problem of distributing that aid to the most vulnerable has attracted far less attention—and will be more difficult to solve. "If the international community wants to solve the humanitarian problem in Gaza, it will need to go well beyond thinking of the issue strictly in terms of trucks, roads, and floating piers. It will instead need to choose between a series of bad options."
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Once-powerful governments struggle to govern. Politics have become tribal. Inequality is rising—and with it, social unrest and division. These trends suggest the era of industrial superpowers is over. Instead, we have entered a "neomedieval" age. And in a neomedieval world, America's rivalry with China may have more in common with the fitful conflicts of the 14th century than with the cataclysmic world wars of the 20th.
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