Copyright

Matthijs M. Maas; Kayla Lucero-Matteucci; Di Cooke

Published On

2023-08-23

Page Range

pp. 237–284

Language

  • English

Print Length

48 pages

10. Military Artificial Intelligence as a Contributor to Global Catastrophic Risk

Chapter of: The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies(pp. 237–284)
Military conflicts could cause global catastrophes today due to the intersection of AI and nuclear weapons development. Security actions against these risks still need to be established, and this chapter emphasises the urgency of such responses by analysing six hypothetical scenarios in which the use of AI systems could increase the likelihood of nuclear catastrophe.

Contributors

Matthijs Maas

(author)
Research Fellow at Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6170-9393

Matthijs Maas is a Senior Research Fellow in Law and AI at the Legal Priorities Project and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), University of Cambridge. His work focuses on mapping theories of change for the governance of advanced, transformative AI; different international institutional designs for AI, the effect of AI on international law, and arms control regimes for military uses of AI technology. Matthijs received his PhD in Law from the University of Copenhagen.

Kayla Lucero-Matteucci

(author)

Kayla Lucero-Matteucci works jointly for Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Leverhulme Centre on the Future of Intelligence, with primary interests in anthropogenic risks from climate change and artificial intelligence. She spent six years in the nuclear policy field, with prior experience as a Fulbright Scholar working with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as well as at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Sandia National Laboratories. As a 2021 Marshall Scholar, she completed graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in Politics and International Studies and at the University of East Anglia in Climate Change and International Development.

Di Cooke

(author)
Research Affiliate at Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

Di Cooke is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and a Tech Policy Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.