{"id":75666,"date":"2018-01-31T02:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T10:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/the-future-of-war"},"modified":"2018-01-31T02:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T10:02:34","slug":"the-future-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/the-future-of-war","title":{"rendered":"The future of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-war.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least the world knows what it is like to live in the shadow of nuclear weapons. There are much bigger question-marks over how the rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning will affect the way wars are fought, and perhaps even the way people think of war. The big concern is that these technologies may create autonomous weapons systems that can make choices about killing humans independently of those who created or deployed them.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>War is still a contest of wills, but technology and geopolitical competition are changing its character, argues Matthew Symonds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-war.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" srcSet=\"\/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/200-width\/images\/print-edition\/20180127_SRP057_0.jpg 200w, \/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/300-width\/images\/print-edition\/20180127_SRP057_0.jpg 300w, \/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/400-width\/images\/print-edition\/20180127_SRP057_0.jpg 400w, \/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/640-width\/images\/print-edition\/20180127_SRP057_0.jpg 640w, \/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/800-width\/images\/print-edition\/20180127_SRP057_0.jpg 800w, \/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1000-width\/images\/print-edition\/20180127_SRP057_0.jpg 1000w, \/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1200-width\/images\/print-edition\/20180127_SRP057_0.jpg 1200w, \/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1280-width\/images\/print-edition\/20180127_SRP057_0.jpg 1280w,\/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1600-width\/images\/print-edition\/20180127_SRP057_0.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 600px)  640px, calc(100vw - 20px)\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/special-report\/21735477-war-still-contest-wills-technology-and-geopolitical-competition-are-changing\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/special-report\/21735477-war-s...e-changing<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least the world knows what it is like to live in the shadow of nuclear weapons. There are much bigger question-marks over how the rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning will affect the way wars are fought, and perhaps even the way people think of war. The big concern is that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}