Artificial Intelligence and Foreign Policy
By Angela Cicily Joseph, ( Image source : Pixabay) The Sputnik moment came when DeepMind’s artificial intelligence system AlphaGo defeated Go’s world champion, Lee Sedol by a marvellous 4 games to 1. Eighteen months later, AlphaZero was released by DeepMind. Unlike AlphaGo, human experts did not train AlphaZero. Instead, it taught itself and was able to not only defeat its predecessor but also other systems. Few months later, countries started investing and announcing national AI strategies. While the race to develop artificial intelligence has gathered momentum with countries like China and the United States of America being leagues ahead, the other countries need to catch up for better economic and political prospects. With an automated world, the developing countries will have less demand for their typical supply of unskilled labour. With AI systems being trained to come up with policy recommendations, countries will have to prepare for a daunting political future. ...