False Portents: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence

The advent of sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems has provoked vociferous debate among pundits and scholars over their likely impacts on strategic bargaining under anarchy. Techno-optimists and techno-skeptics disagree over the breadth of qualitative transformations that AI is likely to inject into world politics. Still, both concede that at least some aspects of tactics, strategy, and grand strategy will be irreversibly transformed by the ability of AI to leverage big data and big compute to extend the frontiers of human knowledge and human control. In this seminar, the speaker will argue that this expectation is largely unwarranted.

Admittance is on a first come–first served basis. Tea and Coffee Provided.

Image Caption: The Oracle of Delphi Entranced