199. "Intelligentization" and a Chinese Vision of Future War

In her testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing on Trade, Technology, and Military-Civil Fusion earlier this year, proclaimed Mad Scientist Elsa Kania stated that President Xi Jinping, in his report to the 19th Party Congress in October 2017, "urged the PLA to'Accelerate the development of military intelligentization" (军事智能化)….This authoritative exhortation has elevated the concept of'intelligentization' as a guiding principle for the future of Chinese military modernization." What is unique about the PLA's approach to implementing AI in force modernization is that they do not seek to merely integrate AI into existing warfighting functions; rather, they are using it to shape a new, cognitive domain and thus revolutionize their entire approach to warfighting -- Read on!] In today's world of rapidly developing concepts and technologies, many theories are emerging about what warfare will resemble in the future. Nowhere does this seem truer than in ...