Hal Brands
Artificial intelligence will change our everyday lives in innumerable ways: how governments serve their citizens; how we drive (and get driven); how we handle and, we hope, protect our finances; how doctors diagnose and treat diseases; even how my students research and write their essays.
But just how revolutionary will AI be? Will it upend the global balance of power? Will it allow autocracies to rule the world? Will it make warfare so fast and ferocious that it becomes uncontrollable? In short, will AI fundamentally alter the rhythms of world affairs?
It is, of course, too soon to say definitively: The effects of AI will ultimately hinge on the decisions leaders and nations make, and technology sometimes takes surprising turns. But even as we are wowed and worried by the next version of ChatGPT, we need to wrestle with six deeper questions about international affairs in the age of AI. And we need to consider a surprising possibility: Perhaps AI won’t change the world as much as we seem to expect.
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