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printMilitary Artificial Intelligence in the U.S. and PRC:
cooperate and don’t fight?
Pomozova N.B.,
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia, npomozova@mail.ru
elibrary_id: 1140071 | ORCID: 0000-0002-9981-0593 | RESEARCHER_ID: AAE-3313-2020
Litvak N.V.,
MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia, jourfr@mail.ru
elibrary_id: 655516 | ORCID: 0000-0003-1621-0005 |
Article received: 2024.11.14 13:59. Accepted: 2025.02.28 14:00
DOI: 10.17976/jpps/2025.03.02
EDN: ERUDSW
For citation:
Pomozova N.B., Litvak N.V. Military Artificial Intelligence in the U.S. and PRC: cooperate and don’t fight?. – Polis. Political Studies. 2025. No. 3. https://doi.org/10.17976/jpps/2025.03.02. EDN: ERUDSW (In Russ.)
Abstract
The rapid and so far unregulated development of artificial intelligence technologies in the last few years has created conditions for a new large-scale arms race of actors using military artificial intelligence. The USA, which constantly reaffirms its goal of maintaining global leadership and military superiority, now considers AI technologies a critical factor and, in this regard, is strengthening systemic restrictions on the access to them of its competitors, primarily China, which, together with Russia, is officially called a rival. In turn, China, which has been developing rapidly and comprehensively in the last two decades, has moved to a more active foreign policy, which would provide it with the necessary conditions at least not to lose in the growing confrontation. In its concepts, state and party documents, Beijing, unlike Washington, emphasizes maintaining peace, universal development and prosperity, while striving to achieve scientific and technological independence. However, a fairly long period of globalization has also given rise to close economic ties and, to a certain extent, scientific symbiosis between these powers. Therefore, now Washington will have to decide whether and at what cost, in the case of a break, it will be able to independently compete with the actors that have at least comparable competitive potential. The article provides a classification of types of military artificial intelligence and describes some aspects of the current confrontation between the United States and China in this area.
Keywords
PRC, US, military artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons systems, international relations.
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