US Grapples With AI Policy As China Threat Looms

Published on June 28, 2024

Cloistered within the laboratories of a Chinese defense university, soldiers are fighting on virtual battlefields, spurred on by the orders of a first-of-its-kind digital commander. These are war games intended to assist the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in conducting large-scale training exercises even when high-ranking military officers cannot be pulled away from their duties elsewhere. What sets these war games apart from the dozens of others conducted every year is one critical distinction: In these games, supreme command authority for the Chinese forces has been granted to an artificial intelligence (AI). Researchers designed this AI commander to mirror its human counterparts in every way. It develops thought patterns and adopts unique personalities. It can even be “forgetful,” shedding its virtual memories when a human commander would be unlikely to retain a similar amount of information....

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