Never Give Artificial Intelligence the Nuclear Codes

No technology since the atomic bomb has inspired the apocalyptic imagination like artificial intelligence. Ever since ChatGPT began exhibiting glints of logical reasoning in November, the internet has been awash in doomsday scenarios. Many are self-consciously fanciful--they're meant to jar us into envisioning how badly things could go wrong if an emerging intelligence comes to understand the world, and its own goals, even a little differently from how its human creators do. One scenario, however, requires less imagination, because the first steps toward it are arguably already being taken--the gradual integration of AI into the most destructive technologies we possess today. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. The world's major military powers have begun a race to wire AI into warfare.