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Assessing the legal and practical questions posed by the use of artificial intelligence in national security matters
Written in plain English, The Centaur's Dilemma will help guide policymakers, lawyers, and technology experts as they deal with the many legal questions that will arise when using artificial intelligence to plan and carry out the actions required for the nation's defense.
List of contents
Contents:
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Centaur's Dilemma
Part I: The Centaur's Dilemma
2. The New Electricity: What Is Artificial Intelligence?
3. The Perfect Sentinel: National Security Applications
4. Sitting on a Hot Frying Pan: National Security Implications of AI
Part II: The Centaur's Choice
5. Toward a Legal Framework
6. Constitutional Law
7. Statutory Regulation of the National Technology Industrial Base
8. Arms Control by Analogy
9. The Means and Methods of War: Additional Analogies and Potential Applications
10. Completing the Template: Ethics, Codes, Guidelines, and Corporate Security Responsibility
11. The Centaur's Choice
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the author
James E. Baker is director of the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law and a professor at the Syracuse College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He served as judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (2000-2015) and as a legal adviser to the National Security Council (1994-2000). He is the author of
In the Common Defense: National Security Law for Perilous Times and co-author of
Regulating Covert Action.
Summary
Addresses how national security law can and should be applied to artificial intelligence, which enables a wide range of decisions and actions not contemplated by current law. James Baker adopts a realistic approach in assessing how the law can be used, or even misused, to regulate this new technology.
