U) Tomorrow’s Technology in Today’s War: The Use of AI and Autonomous Technologies in the War in Ukraine and Implications for Strategic Stability

(U) Tomorrow’s Technology in Today’s War: The Use of AI and Autonomous Technologies in the War in Ukraine and Implications for Strategic Stability September 2023 Tomorrow’s Technology in Today’s War: The Use of AI and Autonomous Technologies in the War in Ukraine and Implications for Strategic Stability Margarita Konaev DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. [...] Drawing on open-source information and scholarly research, this report, authored by Margarita Konaev of Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, surveys the use of AI in the war in Ukraine and assesses the potential implications of these systems and capabilities for conflict escalation and strategic stability. [...] The following section considers how the use of AI and autonomous technologies in the war may have affected the risk of escalation from conventional war to the use of nuclear weapons and conflict spreading to include other parties. [...] The use of AI and autonomous technologies in the war in Ukraine provides an opportunity to assess some of the aforementioned hypotheses and glean initial insights into the role of these technologies in modern warfare. [...] US-Russia Relations and Strategic Stability in the Context of AI and Autonomous Technologies Beyond the current war in Ukraine, how might the integration of AI and autonomous technologies into military systems and missions affect strategic stability between the United States and Russia? Although trust between the two countries is at a nadir, Washington and Moscow still have a shared interest in pr.