{"id":291025,"date":"2024-11-05T12:39:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=343363"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:47:02","slug":"the-pentagon-wants-ai-to-improve-its-nuclear-weapons-is-that-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-pentagon-wants-ai-to-improve-its-nuclear-weapons-is-that-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon wants AI to improve its nuclear weapons, is that good news?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know, the U.S. is one of the countries that have declared that they will always keep control of nuclear weapons in the hands of humans, not AI, for the peace of mind of millions of people.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-starred-link\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-starred-link__img\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/newsletter.png?GoogleAccessId=wp-stateless%40kubertonic.iam.gserviceaccount.com&Expires=1777156180&Signature=dLwwS0YSQvihm3GJg%2B5fx6lSGQXxlIipbKFyTUNLEEquJJsdHoYVXtX0E2rE4WGoe9OfvyKNtzBUUFQhU3lQWqtGpv763Lb4AONq%2FaY0YINs26IYU090rxj6blwIKdfc8TdhA7%2B9JqAwiwyBVLstTsPouThpwg0GrkLZdmpooAQ8fvXiMOoVA8VPIpzxyBTEriI5D%2BLesIvEVU58klA2sBkMWVAzEooXaZPeBwP3vQf8CB8h673NUu8MdYLc8TNmRkceSdmJOAXxxBYVjzoGcJrQKfcklv%2F8XOH8ISOZ0KQkJh%2FCfyqGi3jNDBDHHctBgdnjHhGLXFmxZa%2BHirZ1Qw%3D%3D\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-title\">\r\n        <p class=\"sc-card-starred-link__title\">Subscribe to the Softonic newsletter and get the latest in tech, gaming, entertainment and deals right in your inbox.<\/p>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__button\" href=\"https:\/\/softonic.beehiiv.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\">Subscribe (it's FREE) \u25ba<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/softonic.beehiiv.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But now the Pentagon is not reluctant to use artificial intelligence to &#8220;enhance&#8221; nuclear command, control, and communication systems<\/strong>, which is concerning, as the line between human control and machine control is very thin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of last month, the head of the U.S. Strategic Command, Air Force General Anthony J. Cotton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/stratcom-boss-ai-nuclear-command-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"stated that the command was\">stated that the command was<\/a> &#8220;exploring all possible technologies, techniques, and methods to contribute to the modernization of our NC3 capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AI \u2018Will Enhance\u2019 Nuclear Command and Control, Says Stratcom Boss<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RfftjPMAxw\">https:\/\/t.co\/RfftjPMAxw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine (@ASForcesMag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASForcesMag\/status\/1851065548005580984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The future seems to belong to AI, even in weaponry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, <strong>several AI-controlled weapons systems and military vehicles<\/strong> have been developed, such as fighter jets, drones, and machine guns. However, their use on the battlefield raises concerns, so the prospect of AI, which still makes many mistakes, being part of a nuclear weapons system seems like a nightmare scenario from Hollywood science fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cotton tried to alleviate those fears at the 2024 Conference of the Department of Defense Intelligence Information System. He said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/stratcom-boss-ai-nuclear-command-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"(via Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine)\">(via Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine)<\/a> that although AI will enhance nuclear command and control decision-making capabilities, &#8220;we must never allow artificial intelligence to make those decisions for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already in May, Paul Dean, an arms control official at the State Department, stated in a briefing that Washington has made a &#8220;clear and firm commitment&#8221; to keep humans in control of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The general in charge of our nukes wants to use AI to &quot;enhance our decision-making capabilities&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pCBaoBqU6b\">https:\/\/t.co\/pCBaoBqU6b<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Not_the_Bee\/status\/1853561611522576659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dean added that <strong>both Great Britain and France have made the same commitment.<\/strong> Dean said that the U.S. would welcome a similar statement from China and the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cotton stated that the increase in threats, the avalanche of sensor data, and cybersecurity issues make <strong>the use of AI a necessity to keep U.S. forces ahead<\/strong> of those who intend to challenge the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Advanced systems can inform us more quickly and efficiently,&#8221; he said, emphasizing once again that &#8220;we must always keep a human decision in the loop to maximize the adoption of these capabilities and maintain our advantage over our adversaries.&#8221; Cotton also spoke about using AI to give leaders more &#8220;decision space.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"ChatGPT\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/b330d2b7-464c-4693-b81d-2c97b1edf062\/857405465\/chatgpt-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">ChatGPT<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Pentagon, the use of AI could help quickly match, interpret, and present all the data collected by these systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the nuclear launch codes are not figuratively handed over, <strong>the use of AI in any nuclear weapons system could be risky,<\/strong> something that, according to Cotton, must be addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February,  the researchers conducted simulations of international conflicts with five different LLMs: GPT-4, GPT 3.5, Claude 2.0, Llama-2-Chat, and GPT-4-Base and found that the systems often escalated the war and, in several cases, deployed nuclear weapons without prior warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who don&#8217;t know, the U.S. is one of the countries that have declared they will always keep nuclear weapons control in the hands of humans, not AI, for the peace of mind of millions of people. However, the Pentagon is now not averse to using artificial intelligence to &#8220;improve&#8221; nuclear command, control, and communications systems, which is concerning, as the line between human control and machine control is very thin. At the end of last month, the head of the U.S. Strategic Command, Air Force General Anthony [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":291032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[3885],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6771],"class_list":["post-291025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-inteligencia-artificial","content-category-ai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310940,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291025\/revisions\/310940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291025"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=291025"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=291025"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=291025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}