The top story in the NY Times today was about how A.I. may be about to upend warfare. The article goes into quite a bit of detail.
Military experts are quoted, as are executives of hi-tech companies like Google and Microsoft and an assortment of famous computer scientists. Various scenarios are analyzed and worked through.
But as I read the article, I kept thinking about the War Operation Plan Response system, a massive A.I. computer in the 1993 movie WarGames. After many hours of running simulations of all the possible scenarios, it came to a very sensible conclusion: “The only winning move is not to play.”