Strategy, evolution, and war : from apes to artificial intelligence /

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 year...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Kenneth, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
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.