I Wrote a War Fought With AI Weapons. How Close Is Fiction to Reality?
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way we think about warfare. Autonomous systems, AI-assisted targeting, unmanned aircraft and increasingly sophisticated weapons are moving decisions once made entirely by humans closer to machines.
While writing my geopolitical techno-thriller An Unlikely War, I explored what might happen if that technological evolution went much further — and one side in a major international conflict gained an overwhelming advantage through AI-controlled weapons.
The novel is fiction. But the questions behind it are increasingly real.
What happens when a weapon can identify a threat, calculate a response and act faster than a human being can? How much control should we be prepared to delegate to machines? And perhaps most importantly: what happens when an adversary develops a capability that its opponents cannot immediately counter?
Those questions became the technological foundation of An Unlikely War. They are also questions that governments, militaries, researchers and...
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