军事领域人工智能治理的推进路径【Brookings】

Since October 2019,the Brookings Institutions Foreign Policy program andTsinghua Universitys Center for International Security and Strategy(CISS)have convened the U.S.-China Track II Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence andNational Security.This piece was authored by members of the U.S.andChinese delegations who participate in this dialogue.Melanie W.SissonRapid advances in the sophistication and functionality of military platforms enabled byartificial intelligence(AI)make it necessary and urgent to minimize the likelihood thatstates will use them in ways that cause harm to civilians.Of particular concern is thepossibility that AI-powered military capabilities might cause harm to whole societiesand put in question the survival of the human species.China and the United States are the leaders of AI development and diffusion,and sotheir governments have a special responsibility to seek to prevent uses of AI in themilitary domain from harming civilians.They can achieve this together by pursuingmechanisms believed to reduce the likelihood that AI-powered military crises willoccur.This is the goal of governance regimes.The United States and China can alsoseek to protect civilians in an AI