War on the Rocks

Beyond Human-in-the-Loop: Managing AI Risks in Nuclear Command-and-Control

On Nov. 16, U.S. and Chinese leaders met on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, jointly affirming “the need to maintain human control over the decision to use ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Lessons from the UN’s first resolution on AI in nuclear command and control

The United Nations rarely moves fast on disarmament. This year, though, it did something unusual. On November 6, the General Assembly’s First Committee, where states debate over questions of ...
AFCEA

Technology Aids, Hinders Command and Control

Sailors collect and analyze weather observations at the Naval Aviation Forecast Center at Naval Station Norfolk. Information technology provides more valuable information to commanders than ever, but ...
AFCEA

Army Requests Industry Feedback for Next Generation Command and Control Prototyping

The U.S. Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) and the Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications and Network (PEO C3N) released a request for information on ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Keeping humans in the loop is not enough to make AI safe for nuclear weapons

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems suffer from a myriad of unique technical problems that could directly raise the risk of inadvertent nuclear weapons use. To control these issues, the United States ...