AI Bibliography

The ever-evolving character of war appears in the midst of a paradigm shift and is perhaps on the cusp of revolutionary technological change. Although war remains a violent, dynamic conflict between opposing wills determined to achieve political ends, each element that comprises Clausewitz’s famous “trinity of war” is rapidly changing because transformative technologies are poised to dramatically alter how humans in- teract with machines and one another. Both in the present and future, the pri- mordial elements of violence and pas- sion, which intensely influence human judgments in war, will be mitigated by a greater reliance on objective criteria programmed into machine learning (ML) algorithms to aid human judg- ment and decision making. The element of chance will always remain in war, but artificially intelligent machines are be- coming increasingly adept at forecasting probabilities and could reduce some of war’s inherent fog and friction.