The Militarization of Artificial Intelligence: A Wake-Up Call for the Global South

Garcia, Eugénio Vargas

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“…Initial attempts to codify ethical guidelines for AI, e.g., the Asilomar principles (Asilomar Meeting, 2017), focused on risks related to lethal autonomous weapons systems and AGI Safety. Though both are critical issues, these guidelines did not recognise that risks in peace and security are first felt by conflict zones in developing countries (Garcia, 2019), or engage in a disambiguation of social safety and technical safety. Moreover, they did not contend with the intersection of values and power, whose values are being represented, and the structural inequities that result in an unequal spread of benefits and risk within and across societies.…”

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Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence

2020

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This paper explores the important role of critical science, and in particular of post-colonial and decolonial theories, in understanding and shaping the ongoing advances in artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is viewed as amongst the technological advances that will reshape modern societies and their relations. Whilst the design and deployment of systems that continually adapt holds the promise of far-reaching positive change, they simultaneously pose significant risks, especially to already vulnerable peoples. Values and power are central to this discussion. Decolonial theories use historical hindsight to explain patterns of power that shape our intellectual, political, economic, and social world. By embedding a decolonial critical approach within its technical practice, AI communities can develop foresight and tactics that can better align research and technology development with established ethical principles, centring vulnerable peoples who continue to bear the brunt of negative impacts of innovation and scientific progress. We highlight problematic applications that are instances of coloniality, and using a decolonial lens, submit three tactics that can form a decolonial field of artificial intelligence: creating a critical technical practice of AI, seeking reverse tutelage and reverse pedagogies, and the renewal of affective and political communities. The years ahead will usher in a wave of new scientific breakthroughs and technologies driven by AI research, making it incumbent upon AI communities to strengthen the social contract through ethical foresight and the multiplicity of intellectual perspectives available to us; ultimately supporting future technologies that enable greater well-being, with the goal of beneficence and justice for all. Keywords decolonisation • coloniality • sociotechnical foresight • intercultural ethics • critical technical practice • artificial intelligence • affective community

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Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence

2020

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“…The idea that states are incorporating AI into their defense systems to "strengthen their military" and "improve the security of their nations" is with skepticism (Garcia, 2019). Many analysts feel that the deployment of AI in the military by some AI-leading countries is purely to ensure their position at the top of the power pyramid.…”

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“…As a result, many concerns have been expressed about the fact that certain authorities and rulers of governments are misled by these perks, and hence ignore all of the safety problems that come with them (Sisson, 2020). Some military advisors even tie the employment of artificial intelligence in the military to the possibility of a nuclear war (Garcia, 2019). They even go so far as to say that the militarization of AI is irrevocable (Garcia, 2019).…”

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The Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence in the Military: The Importance of Meaningful Human Control

SAIDI¹

2022

MAS Journal

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Artificial Intelligence has become an essential part of our lives. It has without a doubt made life much easier and practical whether on a global scale such as economical and political development or on a smaller scale such as our day-to-day lives. The last half-decade marked the beginning of the development of robots that have the ability to perform human tasks. Originally, it was expected that the main disadvantage of AI technology would be related to the loss of work prospects since humans would be replaced by machines that are able to operate in a more efficient matter. While this concern is certainly valid, there is a far more severe issue at hand which is none other than the military's use of AI. Governments, journalists, and tech leaders argue that developing and using intelligent and autonomous weaponry is unquestionably a fatal mistake that might lead to catastrophic consequences; it is particularly problematic if these technologies end up in the hands of the wrong individuals. These experts and scholars argued that these weapons could eventually lead to more damage and destruction and could possibly result in a third world war. Thus, they attempted to explore the moral and, most significantly, legal ramifications of these autonomous weapons. As a result, a new formula had to be introduced; this formula is Meaningful Human Control. In fact, the ultimate goal is to make Meaningful Human Control a legal requirement under International Law in order to allow it to serve as a potential solution for a number of moral and legal challenges that these fully autonomous weapons raise. This paper seeks to understand and elaborate on the benefits and the challenges that come with the integration of meaningful human control in the use of autonomous weapons systems.

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“…This is because rapidly developing technologies such as artificial intelligence need a framework for the principle of ethics (Floridi et al, 2018). Garcia (2019) stated that the failure to construct and recognize artificial intelligence principles is a significant threat and conflict point on the security and peace side, especially for developing countries. At the centre of all these concerns and warnings are the unethical, discriminatory and even racist consequences observed in the field of artificial intelligence.…”

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The Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Sustainable Development Goal

Ozdemir¹,

Özuyar²,

Sundu³

2021

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Artificial intelligence (AI), which was built for "a better world" motto, reveals its potential in many fields. Despite of such good intension, results of AI systems caused bias, and sharpened the social prejudices. Besides in order to create such powerful AI systems and unbiased machines, the massive data collected, storaged, processed, also caused high energy consumption, ecological degradation. Although efforts have been made to integrate artificial intelligence into the sustainability field, the main limitation is about the AI researcher's, developer's point of view. In this study, revealing the contribution of artificial intelligence to the Sustainable Development Goals is aimed. At this point, data were collected using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) from 30 individuals who were trained and worked as a developer in the field of artificial intelligence. As a result, it has been understood that while the developers believe that artificial intelligence will contribute mostly in the fields related to the industry and economy, they believe that it will make almost no contribution due to the bias problems on the gender equality side.

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The Militarization of Artificial Intelligence: A Wake-Up Call for the Global South

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Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence

Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence

The Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence in the Military: The Importance of Meaningful Human Control

The Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Sustainable Development Goal

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