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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Strategy, evolution, and war
    sub title: from apes to artificial intelligence
  name:
    name part: Payne, Kenneth
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 260 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book is about the psychological and biological bases of strategy making in war as they have evolved in humans over our history as a species. The book is also a cautionary preview of how artificial intelligence will revolutionize strategy more than any development in the last three thousand years of military history. Machines will make important decisions about war on both sides, and they may do so without input from humans. Kenneth Payne describes strategy as an evolved package of conscious and unconscious behaviors with roots in our primate ancestry. Human-made strategy is influenced by emotion as well as reason, with both positive and negative results. The strategic implications of artificial intelligence are profound because they depart radically from the biological basis of human intelligence. Rather than being just another tool of war, artificial inteliigence will exponentially speed up decisionmaking, make choices humans might not make, and force faster actions and reactions. This book is a fascinating examination of the psychology of strategy-making from prehistoric times, through the ancient world, and into the modern age. It also offers a concerning preview of a future when humans cede at least some control over their destiny.
  table of contents: The evolution of strategists -- Defining strategy as psychology -- Evolutionary strategy -- Strategic heuristics and biases -- Culture meets evolved strategy -- The pen and the sword in ancient Greece -- Clausewitz explores the psychology of strategy -- Nuclear weapons are not psychologically revolutionary -- AI and strategy -- Tactical artificial intelligence arrives -- Artificial general intelligence does strategy -- Conclusion: strategy evolves beyond AI.
  note: Kenneth Payne.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-246) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Strategy
  subject:
    topic: Strategy
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
    topic: Military applications
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science
  classification: U162 .P39 2018
  classification: 355.02
  identifier: 9781626165793
  identifier: 1626165793
  identifier: 9781626165809
  identifier: 1626165807
  identifier: 2017057435
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180302
    record change date: 20181023092641.0
    record identifier: in00004002247