Security and Speed of Military Artificial Intelligence: Towards a Better Understanding of the Security and Non-Proliferation Problems in the United States

This week, Biden will meet with Beijing’s leader, and that may provide a boost to military dialog. The State Department official says they are looking forward to a positive leaders meeting. From that conversation we can understand that a bilateral arms control and non-proliferation conversation could progress.

The US is leading a project to build international agreement on military artificial intelligence. On November 1, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that 30 nations had agreed to back a declaration on military AI that calls for the technology to be developed in accordance with international humanitarian law, using principles designed to improve reliability and transparently and reduce bias, so that systems can be disengaged if they demonstrate “unintended behavior.”

The United States will today launch the implementation of the declaration on military artificial intelligence that has been signed by 45 other nations at the United Nations.

CISA’s plan focuses on using AI responsibly—but also aggressively in US digital defense. Easterly emphasizes that, while the agency is “focused on security over speed” in terms of the development of AI-powered defense capabilities, the fact is that attackers will be harnessing these tools—and in some cases already are—so it is necessary and urgent for the US government to utilize them as well.