When Artificial Intelligence will Power Geopolitics – Presenting AI (Open Access)

"Killer Robots" worry the international community. From 13 to 17 November 2017, the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), also familiarly designed as "killer robots" met for the first time in Geneva (UN Office at Geneva). LAWS are, broadly speaking, autonomous systems (robots) animated by artificial intelligence, which can kill without human decision. As stated in a preliminary paper, the creation of the Group shows an international concern "with the implications for warfare of a new suite of technologies including artificial intelligence and deep machine learning" (UNODA Occasional Papers No. 30, "Perspectives on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems" November 2017: 1). Are we, however, certain that AI will impact only LAWS? Or, rather, could AI impact much more than that, indeed, everything related to politics and geopolitics?