Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and the Future of Warfare Global Perspectives

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 regimens and command structures. The book also covers the 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.

List of figures vii Notes on the contributors viii Preface and acknowledgements xii Abbreviations xiv Introduction: Intelligent autonomous war machines and the future of warfare 1 Kaushik Roy 1 Artificial intelligence, national security and the future of warfare 30 P.K. Mallick 2 Defence applications of artificial intelligence 71 Ajey Lele 3 Artificial intelligence and military aviation 91 A.K. Sachdev 4 AI-cyber nexus: Impact on deterrence and stability 108 Kritika Roy 5 Ethical analysis of AI-based systems for military use 124 Gregory M. Reichberg and Henrik Syse 6 Sentience in future war machines: The challenge of building ethics, morality and virtue as a normative engine 157 Swaminathan Ramanathan 7 Biased artificial intelligence systems and their implications in war scenarios 175 Kelly Fisher 8 Ethics, laws on war and artificial intelligence-driven warfare 187 Guru Saday Batabyal 9 Artificial intelligence in military operations: Technology, ethics and the Indian perspective 216 R.S. Panwar 10 Fighting insurgents with robots and drones: A case study of the Indian armed forces 227 Kaushik Roy 11 Artificial intelligence and the future of armed conflicts: Contextualising Africa in the global matrix 251 Gabriel Udoh Index 273

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 PRIO’s ‘Warring with Machines’ project.