In The AI Military Race, Denise Garcia examines the complexities entailed in creating a global framework to govern the military use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by proposing inclusive and humane ways to forge cooperation. Three novel humanist conceptions are introduced: common good governance, transnational networked cooperation, and humanity's security. This academic volume is the first to survey the threats to peace in the shifting world order by investigating the current patterns and trends in the global use of, and investment in, militarizing AI and the development of autonomous systems. Garcia weaves in an insider participant-observer focus on the decade-long high-level diplomatic attempts to set limits in autonomy in weapons systems - known as 'killer robots' - and offers a path for the creation of an international treaty on autonomous weapons, and ways to create common good governance for the militarization of AI. This important study draws on earlier successful cooperation and international law-making in several areas including conventional arms, nuclear and chemical weapons bans, the protection of outer space and the ozone, the Arctic, Antarctica, and the oceans. It offers an appraisal of the way that previous successes in global cooperation can inform the formation of common good governance on AI that is respectful of future generations and protective of human dignity and the common good of humanity.

About the Author
Denise Garcia is a Professor at Northeastern University and a founding faculty member of its Experiential Robotics Institute. She is formerly a member of the International Panel for the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons (2017-2022), currently of the Research Board of the Toda Peace Institute (Tokyo) and the Institute for Economics and Peace (Sydney), Vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. She was the Nobel Peace Institute Fellow in Oslo in 2017. A multiple teaching award-winner, her recent publications appeared in Nature, Foreign Affairs, International Relations, and other top journals.

Reviews
Professor Garcia's book is a must-read for anyone concerned with humanity's future in an age of autonomous weapons. More, and more dangerous weapons will not make us safe - we need common good governance. * Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1997 *
Harnessing AI for military uses without harming humanity and overriding good governance is an immensely critical concern, especially as AI becomes endlessly more sophisticated. Denise Garcia's innovative study of AI should guide military planners and opinion makers everywhere. * Professor Robert I. Rotberg, Harvard Kennedy School *
An inspiring and well-argued proposal, not just for a treaty to ban lethal autonomous weapons, but also for a way of thinking about our common security that renders the very idea of lethal autonomous weapons absurd. * Stuart J. Russell, Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley and author of Human Compatible *



Book Information
ISBN 9780192864604
Author Denise Garcia
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 626g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 165mm * 25mm