This volume examines how the adoption of AI technologies is likely to impact strategic and operational planning, and the possible future tactical scenarios for conventional, unconventional, cyber, space and nuclear force structures.
This volume examines how the adoption of AI technologies is likely to impact strategic and operational planning, and the possible future tactical scenarios for conventional, unconventional, cyber, space and nuclear force structures. In addition to developments in the USA, Britain, Russia and China, the volume also explores how different Asian and European countries are actively integrating AI into their military readiness. It studies the effect of AI and related technologies in training regimen and command structures. The book also covers ethical and legal aspects of AI augmented warfare.
The volume will be of great interest to scholars, students and researchers of military and strategic studies, defence studies, artificial intelligence, and ethics.
Introduction: Intelligent Autonomous War Machines and the Future of Warfare
1. Artificial Intelligence, National Security and the Future of Warfare
2. Defence Applications of Artificial Intelligence
3. Artificial Intelligence and Military Aviation
4. AI-Cyber Nexus: Impact on Deterrence and Stability
5. Ethical Analysis of AI-based Systems for Military Use 6. Sentience in Future War Machines: The Challenge of Building Ethics, Morality and Virtue as a Normative Engine 7. Biased Artificial Intelligence Systems and their Implications in War Scenarios
8. Ethics, Laws on War and Artificial Intelligence driven Warfare
9. Artificial Intelligence in Military Operations: Technology, Ethics and the Indian Perspective
10. Fighting Insurgents with Robots and Drones: A Case Study of the Indian Armed Forces
11. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Armed Conflicts: Contextualising Africa in the Global Matrix
Kaushik Roy is Guru Nanak Chair Professor in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He has authored several books from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Springer, etc. and numerous articles in several peer-reviewed journals on the military history of Eurasia. At present, he is associated with PRIOs Warring with Machines project.
