Accidental nuclear war: the contribution of artificial intelligence

摘要

The AI community is seriously considering what all the military sponsorship would do to the prospect of being able to carry out basic research without, at the same time, putting the whole of our planet's population at risk. The SDI proposals of a defence shield that completely protects a nation from offensive missiles pose so many technical questions concerning the reliability of computers which are needed to control it. It has been argued that the complexity and sensitivity to the context of application make the construction of programs extremely difficult.