Let's look at it on two levels. I think we're already at the beginning of a phase of strategic competition among the United States, China, Russia and others for the use of AI and cyber-weapons and the integration of that into military affairs and strategic economic competition. That's one geopolitical level at which this is going to evolve very rapidly.
I think the second layer, which is very concerning as well, is the ability of non-state groups to effectively use off-the-shelf downloadable apps for AI and other software to significantly increase their capability to use things like remote drones, remote drone swarming, social media manipulation, etc., both for direct attacks on governments or peacekeepers in a conflict setting and also for terrorist actions outside of those settings.
Those are two very different problems, but I think we're going to see most forms of battlefields, so to speak, whether geopolitical or operational, become increasingly infused with the use of both cyber and AI weapons.
ISIS is way ahead of the curve from other non-state groups in its use of artificial intelligence to drive its recruiting platforms overseas. Other groups will catch on.