Artificial Intelligence & New World Order

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an unusual affair, as opposed to usual concerns of a strategist. Any serious quest is focused on the ascent of AI shifting the path of history. It is an era marked by an epochal transformation centered on the logic of machines and beyond. And beyond is scary, for if AI takes over, there is nothing to override it. Though hinted at but never admitted to, this is the dilemma. The transformative impact of AI is transforming societies, choices, art, culture, education, politics, economics, finance, industry, foreign policy, strategy, weapon systems, warfare, lawfare, besides, information and disinformation. Plus, an altered perception, thought, identity and reality, not to mention decision-making and life itself. AI is a pervasive influence that acquires and grows too, though devoid of inquisitiveness, camaraderie, compassion and soul. It is a disruptive force forcing governments and corporations to scramble for an AI adaptation and to win its steeplechase. An enabler and not a sphere, AI can be tailored-cut to reach a goal which is beyond the cognitive capacities of human mind. And mankind is on the cusp of yet another transcendence, compared to earlier transformations. Still, there is something out of joint in an evolving AI New-World-Order (NWO). It is an abstract and Kafkaesque undertaking. The momentum for an AI driven world is operational. Machine-learning is central to it. The race for a strategic AI advantage has commenced with a subtle political aim. The old paradigm is as good as gone. To recoil from exploring the strategic-frontiers of an AI based NWO is not an option. A cognitive-reappraisal is required to reset the set. The restyling of NWO with AI is as momentous as was the arrival of nuclear weapons. And the AI fame is already trading the prestige of chess.