I'm not old enough to have lived through the Cold War and its close nuclear shaves that apparently had us at the brink of armageddon. But even millennials like myself, and younger generations, have grown up under the shadow of that particular mushroom-shaped threat. And it might just be me, but I don't find my fear of this soothed by our continuous AI advancement.
That's especially the case when I reflect on the possibility of AI being baked into parts of nuclear launch systems, which, as Wired reports, nuclear war experts think might be inevitable. Ex-US Air Force major general and member of the Science and Security Board for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Bob Latiff, for instance, thinks that AI is "like electricity" and is "going to find its way into everything."
