The problem there is that-- and that, again, is one of the examples of military implementations of AI, and there, the problem is that the conventional Western militaries are configured in a way where procurement is very, very difficult.It spans multiple years.
I think it's actually a critical time for discussion on this issue. Militaries are heavily invested in development of robotic and digital technologies, including the software that underpins bothand, increasingly, of course, AI and machine learning.
And that's really important to remember when you're thinking about the implications, but also you're thinking about how to address the implications. Militaries -- and naturally for them-- they're investing heavily in robotic systems, armed and unarmed, air, land, and sea of all different shapesand sizes. This is a capture from a video explainer we did with Vox Media in the US.
Well, it's beyond faith. But militaries can't make good things happen.
a million dollars each. They have been used against military targets in Russia before. That's worth saying. But what we've seen is ramping up particularly drone technologies as western militaries are defend developing as well. This year the UK signed a record package of support for Ukraine. Uh about 4 uh billion US dollars worth that was
Of all the nuclear states there was only one which supported the ban. And of all significant militaries in the world, all states with significant militaries in the world, only two supported the ban. The largest militaries , the countries with the largest number of nuclear weapons all argued for further discussion.
And of all significant militaries in the world, all states with significant militaries in the world, only two supported the ban. The largest militaries , the countries with the largest number of nuclear weapons all argued for further discussion. Let's push this off to next year.
Usually when we talk about arms control and proliferation, it's on the nuclear scale. Like our militaries tend to be obsessed with state versus state conflict. We're spending a trillion dollars on the next fighter jet program, the F-35.
So we'll start off with clothing. In the militaries -- I've seen the studies on this.
away from civilian infrastructure; no dictator wants his military to be destroyed. The leaders of these militaries don't want their capacities to be destroyed. In Bosnia, when we finally began to bomb seriously, we being NATO, in 1995, after the massacre in Srebrenica, Milosevic came to the negotiation table in three weeks, and it was over. If we had bombed three years earlier when it began, the slaughter would have never taken
for information go through that garbage uh private detective agency a lot of them are ex cops ex militaries ex spies and you also get intelligence agencies like say the CIA that might use private eye agencies as outsourc cont independent contractors to do stuff that
As we've read quite recently in the paper, Iran has a well-established nuclear program composed of multiple facilities, some of them very deeply underground to make it difficult for foreign militaries to hold those sites at risk to put them in danger. And while there have been some very positive developments with respect to the arsenal of the former Soviet Union, I would attribute this positive trend in significant part
Where you have this domain in which commerce, communication, and conflict all played out on the open sea. The conflict actors ranged from state militaries to individual criminal groups, pirates, to these fuzzy things in the middle, privateers, that sort of gave you some of the advantage of pirates but also state-linked as well.
But we're just beginning to see Chinese domestic environmental NGOs trying to hold Chinese firms to count when they go abroad. And when you add more and more strong militaries to a small area, you inevitably raise the risks of conflict.
And things you have to, and the, the thing you have to make clear is that if a genocidal leaders begin to slaughter their people, that you, the United States, NATO, will use their military forces as they did in Bosnia to degrade the militaries of these, of the states that undertake the perpetration of genocide. Target military facilities, munitions, forces, stayaway from civilian infrastructure; no dictator wants his military to be destroyed.
are empowering the powerful at the expense of the powerless. So recent examples of social bots being co-opted by governments and militaries for use in attacking their opposition. Armies of automated software-driven profiles are used to target journalists, and activists, and citizens using Western surveillance tools.
So this is nothing new. And where things like culture, trade, begin to replace militaries , security barriers
If you take all the military budgets of the world, you add them up, it's about 1.3, 1.5 trillion with a T -- trillion dollars. Organized crime is about twice that worldwide. I want that to sink in. Think of the infrastructure of the militaries of the world. Think of the cash. Think of the personnel. Think of the influence. Think of its activities. Then double that and have it not on the radar map of most futurists in the world. It's extremely important.
companies around the world, organizations, governments, militaries are scrambling to figure out, uh, you
And all those colors represent their particular interests in extending their rights over the seabed. And on the other hand, you have a more traditional oceanographic physical geography, if you will, of the Arctic Ocean, that is being mapped ever more intensely both by militaries eager, almost as if there was a return to the Cold War to make sure they properly understand this underwater space, but also scientists desperately trying
The other major aspect of our work is prevention. And this really is about long-term dialogue with weapon bearers, those who carry weapons, militaries and others; the political or military authorities; and civil society.
The problem of Europe is that having bought into peace and prosperity, they essentially-- many of them dismantle their militaries .