Artificial Intelligence: What questions should DoD be asking?
Dr. Matthew Daniels

November 20, 2017

Machines are increasingly helping humans with cognitive tasks in addition to physical labor. Like the industrial revolution, this transition in how societies use machines will have major impacts on the security of states and the character of armed conflict. How should national security leaders think about this transition? What issues should we prepare for? I will parse several broad areas where AI applications may affect elements of national power, and highlight issues we can already see emerging for national security leaders.

Dr. Matthew Daniels is an advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and a research engineer at NASA. His principal areas of focus include U.S. space programs, deep space exploration, and artificial intelligence. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown and an affiliate at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Previously he was an engineer and special assistant at NASA, where he worked on spacecraft designs and new projects for the director of NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA. Matt received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Stanford and a B.A. in physics from Cornell.