Artificial Intelligence: The Geopolitical & Security Implications

The Southern Talks #4

This fourth episode in our Southern Talks series is focused on the highly complex and timely topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The video begins with a comprehensive, in-depth presentation by our esteemed guest and expert Mr. Paul Scharre, Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), based in Washington DC.

The second half is an extensive Q & A session, time-stamped by sub-topic, and it looks into more specific issues such as the role AI might have in the Global South, and national and international Policy and Legislative approaches controlling AI development.

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Key insights

How AI has developed in recent decades and what is new today.

Computing trends and the use of Dual-Systems.

The global actors.

AI in the Military Domain.

Geopolitical Competition – Can the South benefit?

International Regulation:

What are the reasonable expectations?
The difficulty for Policy Makers.
3 paradigms in the approach to AI regulation (UU/EU/China).
AI monitoring and regulating AI.
US – Notification requirements for new models Vs. UK focus on Safety Models with Private companies using Frontier models.

Intentional Misuse Vs. Risk of Accidents (AI deception and sycophantic behaviour).
AI effects on manufacture-based economies in developing countries.
Pulling the Plug?

Mr. Paul Scharre

Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security

Mr Paul Scharre is the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), based in Washington DC.

He is the award-winning author of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. His first book, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, won the 2019 Colby Award, acclaimed as one of the top five books to understand modern warfare.

TIME magazine named him as one of the “100 most influential people in AI” in 2023.

Prior to joining OSD, Scharre served as a special operations reconnaissance team leader in the Army’s 3rd Ranger Battalion and completed multiple tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. Scharre also previously worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) where he played a leading role in establishing policies on unmanned and autonomous systems and emerging weapons technologies. He led the Department of Defense (DoD) working group that drafted DoD Directive 3000.09, establishing the department’s policies on autonomy in weapons systems.

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