Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Stability: A Perceptual Lesson on the Development of Military Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence in the United States and Russia

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Political Science and International Relations, Humanities Literature, Rasht, Iran

2 Department of Political Sciences, and International Relations, University of Guilan. Rasht, Iran.

3 Political sciences & International Relations, Literature & Humanities, Guilan University, Rasht, Guilan

Abstract

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the growth of technologies such as artificial intelligence have transformed the competition between great powers. Tools and systems based on artificial intelligence have special characteristics that allow countries that own the technology to gain greater military power by taking advantage of them and can play an effective role in the global future. Despite the fact that the use of artificial intelligence leads to strategic stability and a lack of motivation for nuclear powers to engage in armed conflict, the lack of attention to understanding how nuclear power policymakers perceive artificial intelligence technologies and their effects has led this research to examine the relationship between artificial intelligence and strategic stability between the United States and Russia not only through the technical nature of artificial intelligence but also through policymakers' beliefs about these technologies and the goals of other countries for using them. Using a documentary study method and a descriptive-analytical approach, this article seeks to answer the question of how decision-makers in the United States and Russia have acted on the military development of artificial intelligence and the establishment of strategic stability by perceptually analyzing their official discourses between 2014 and 2023. Based on the findings, the United States and Russia have created a threat from their artificial intelligence capabilities from a military perspective that reflects their views of strategic stability as well as a social context characterized by distrust and a sense of competition. The discourses in their thinking have led to the formation of a competitive cycle of erroneous and irreparable perceptions after the Ukraine crisis.

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American Strategic Studies
Volume 4, Issue 3 - Serial Number 15
Serial number 15 - Autumn 2024
December 2024
Pages 95-120

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  • Receive Date: 04 February 2024
  • Revise Date: 25 December 2024
  • Accept Date: 26 December 2024
  • Publish Date: 28 December 2024

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