> I even think AI is going to improve warfare, when it has to happen, by reducing wartime death rates dramatically. Every war is characterized by terrible decis

> I even think AI is going to improve warfare, when it has to happen, by reducing wartime death rates dramatically. Every war is characterized by terrible decisions made under intense pressure and with sharply limited information by very limited human leaders. Now, military commanders and political leaders will have AI advisors that will help them make much better strategic and tactical decisions, minimizing risk, error, and unnecessary bloodshed. While wars have actually been getting less deadly over the last century, I think this is because of reasons beyond just technology. If it were technology alone that we depended on, his notion of commanders using AI advisers to make them strategize war into a death-and-suffering minimalist process is laughable. Instead, they'd more likely just start more wars, more easily, always confident in their supposed technological edge while really just creating more murderous catastrophe and failure. That this has happened less over time despite the advances of technology has been more a social phenomenon of lower human tolerance for violence in general. A more widely connected and wealthier (more to lose) world has helped this mentality accelerate, yes, but fundamentally, this intolerance to violence is a human trait that was given more space in which to proliferate by technology. The technology didn't bring it into existence. AI will be little different.