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Strategy, Evolution, and War: From Apes to Artificial Intelligence

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kenneth PaynePublish date:2018-06-01Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Georgetown University PressISBN-13:9781626165809ISBN-10:1626165807UPC:9781626165809Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:International Relations, Military, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:StrategySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCNSFNB7ZD

Decisions about war have always been made by humans, but now intelligent machines are on the cusp of changing things - with dramatic consequences for international affairs. This book explores the evolutionary origins of human strategy, and makes a provocative argument that Artificial Intelligence will radically transform the nature of war by changing the psychological basis of decision-making about violence.

Strategy, Evolution, and War is a cautionary preview of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will revolutionize strategy more than any development in the last three thousand years of military history. Kenneth Payne describes strategy as an evolved package of conscious and unconscious behaviors with roots in our primate ancestry. Our minds were shaped by the need to think about warfare-a constant threat for early humans. As a result, we developed a sophisticated and strategic intelligence.

The implications of AI are profound because they depart radically from the biological basis of human intelligence. Rather than being just another tool of war, AI will dramatically speed up decision making and use very different cognitive processes, including when deciding to launch an attack, or escalate violence. AI will change the essence of strategy, the organization of armed forces, and the international order.

This book is a fascinating examination of the psychology of strategy-making from prehistoric times, through the ancient world, and into the modern age.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Georgetown University PressISBN-13:9781626165809ISBN-10:1626165807UPC:9781626165809Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:International Relations, Military, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:StrategySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCNSFNB7ZD

Kenneth Payne is a senior lecturer in the School of Security Studies at King's College, London. He is also a senior member of St Antony's College, Oxford University, having earlier been a visiting fellow in the Department of International Relations there. Payne's research is broadly in the field of political psychology and strategic studies. He is the author of two previous books, The Psychology of Strategy: Exploring Rationality in the Vietnam War and The Psychology of Modern Conflict.


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Kenneth Payne

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