Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace
Our edited volume Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace, a collaboration with GÉODE, and edited by Fabio Cristiano, Dennis Broeders, François Delerue, Frédérick Douzet and Aude Géry is out now, in open access.
The volume is based on papers presented during our September 2021 hybrid conference on Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace, which we organized together with Frédérick Douzet and Aude Géry from GÉODE in The Hague. The book is subdivided into three parts (technical and operational challenges, strategic and geopolitical challenges, and normative and legal challenges) and contains contributions by Andrew C. Dwyer, Wesley R. Moy, Kacper T. Gradon, Simona R. Soare, Arun Mohan Sukumar, Jeppe T. Jacobsen, Tobias Liebetrau, Mariarosaria Taddeo, David McNeish, Alexander Blanchard, Elizabeth Edgar, Louis Perez, and Jack Kenny.
About Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace
This edited volume explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming international conflict in cyberspace.
Over the past three decades, cyberspace developed into a crucial frontier and issue of international conflict. However, scholarly work on the relationship between AI and conflict in cyberspace has been produced along somewhat rigid disciplinary boundaries and an even more rigid sociotechnical divide - wherein technical and social scholarship are seldomly brought into a conversation. This is the first volume to address these themes through a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary approach. With the intent of exploring the question 'what is at stake with the use of automation in international conflict in cyberspace through AI?', the chapters in the volume focus on three broad themes, namely: (1) technical and operational, (2) strategic and geopolitical and (3) normative and legal. These also constitute the three parts in which the chapters of this volume are organised, although these thematic sections should not be considered as an analytical or a disciplinary demarcation.
Contents
- Chapter 1 - Introduction: Artificial intelligence and international conflict in cyberspace: Exploring three sets of issues, by Fabio Cristiano, Dennis Broeders, François Delerue, Frédérick Douzet, and Aude Géry
Technical and operational challenges
- Chapter 2 - The unknowable conflict: Tracing AI, recognition, and the death of the (human) loop, by Andrew C. Dwyer
- Chapter 3 - Artificial intelligence in hybrid and information warfare: A double-edged sword, by Wesley R. Moy & Kacper T. Gradon
Strategic and geopolitical challenges
- Chapter 4 - Algorithmic power? The role of artificial intelligence in European strategic autonomy, by Simona R. Soare
- Chapter 5 - The middleware dilemma of middle powers: AI-enabled services as sites of cyber conflict in Brazil, India, and Singapore, by Arun Mohan Sukumar
- Chapter 6 - Artificial intelligence and military superiority: How the 'cyber-AI offensive-defensive arms race' affects the US vision of the fully integrated battlefield, by Jeppe T. Jacobsen & Tobias Liebetrau
Normative and legal challenges
- Chapter 7 - Ethical principles for artificial intelligence in the defence domain, by Mariarosaria Taddeo, David McNeish, Alexander Blanchard, & Elizabeth Edgar
- Chapter 8 - Is Stuxnet the next Skynet? Autonomous cyber capabilities as lethal autonomous weapons systems, by Louis Perez
- Chapter 9 - Advanced artificial intelligence techniques and the principle of non-intervention in the context of electoral interference: A challenge to the "demanding" element of coercion?, by Jack Kenny
