Excitement about generative artificial intelligence has reached fever pitch since the launch of ChatGPT and image engines like MidJourney in the past year. (Jstor Daily) Yet both elation or anxiety about the new technology’s applications in the present lead soon to bigger, existential projections about the future. With the exception of the “singularity” and AI replacing humanity directly, no outcome provokes quite the same amount of anxiety as the effect AI could have on warfare. Could autonomous weaponry and strategy bots oppress civilians, defy human operators—or even ignite World War III?
