Full Description
This book offers a comprehensive approach to the question of how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts politics, economy, and the society today. In this view, it is quintessential for understanding the complex nature of AI and its role in today's world.
The book has been divided into three parts. Part one is devoted to the question of how AI will be used for security and defense purposes, including combat in war zones. Part two looks at the value added of AI and machine learning for decision-making in the fields of politics and business. Part three consists of case studies—covering the EU, the USA, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, and Poland—that discuss how AI is being used in the realms of politics, security and defense.
The discussion in the book opens with the question of the nature of AI, as well as of ethics and the use of AI in combat. Subsequently, the argument covers issues as diverse as the militarization of AI, the use of AI in strategic studies and military strategydesign. These topics are followed by an insight into AI and strategic communication (StratCom), including disinformation, as well as into AI and finance. The case-studies included in part 3 of the book offer a captivating overview of how AI is being employed to stimulate growth and development, to promote data- and evidence-driven policy-making, to enable efficient and inclusive digital transformation and other related issues.
Written by academics and practitioners in an academically sound, yet approachable manner, this volume queries issues and topics that form the thrust of processes that transform world politics, economics and society. As such, this volume will serve as the primer for students, researchers, lectures and other professionals who seek to understand and engage with the variety of issues AI implicates.
Contents
1. Artificial intelligence and its context: issues, domains, applications.- 2. Demystifying artificial intelligence: by means of introduction.- 3. Ethical conditions of the use of artificial intelligence in the modern battlefield - towards the "modern" culture of killing.- 4. Cyberspace, artificial intelligence, and the future of proxy warfare.- 5. Mapping AI in the field of Strategic Studies.- 6. AI-supported Decision Making Process aids in multidomain operations.- 7. AI in Management and Business Administration. Discussions and Research Studies.- 8. Leadership 4.0 - using technology to amplify leadership development.- 9. Strategic communication as a guarantor of communication coherence in the armed forces.- 10. Blockchain: capital market leapfrogging and apt financing allocation in the Global South.- 11. The case for European Digital Sovereignty: Building Europe's technological independence in times of geopolitical rivalry.- 12. ePortugal: Artificial Intelligence, Politics and State Modernization.- 13. Developing a Saudi Artificial Intelligence Initiative Based on Vision 2030.- 14. The United States of America's Embrace of Artificial Intelligence in Pursuit of National Security.- 15. Assessing the Ecosystem of Innovation in GCC: Policy Implications and Strategic Directions.
