Paul Scharre
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An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick
One of the Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books
"An invaluable primer to arguably the most important driver of change for our future." —P. W. Singer, author of Burn-In
An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today's great power rivalry—the struggle to control artificial intelligence.
A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization
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Paul Scharre, a Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger, explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death. Scharre's far-ranging investigation examines the emergence of autonomous weapons, the movement to ban them, and the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. He spotlights artificial intelligence in military technology, spanning decades of innovation from German noise-seeking...