Artificial Intelligence, Law, and National Security

Abstract

In this chapter, the law scholar Ebrahim Afsah outlines different implications of AI for the area of national security. He argues that while AI overlaps with many challenges to the national security arising from cyberspace, it also creates new risks, including the emergence of a superintelligence in the future, the development of autonomous weapons, the enhancement of existing military capabilities, and threats to foreign relations and economic stability. Most of these risks, however, Afsah concludes, can be subsumed under existing normative frameworks.