Four Battlegrounds, Paul Scharre
Four Battlegrounds, Paul Scharre
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Four Battlegrounds
Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Author: Paul Scharre

Narrator: Steve Marvel

Unabridged: 13 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/09/2023


Synopsis

An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today's great power rivalry—the struggle to control artificial intelligence.

A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives—and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe. Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre takes listeners inside the fierce competition to develop and implement this game-changing technology and dominate the future.

Four Battlegrounds argues that four key elements define this struggle: data, computing power, talent, and institutions. Data is a vital resource like coal or oil, but it must be collected and refined. Advanced computer chips are the essence of computing power—control over chip supply chains grants leverage over rivals. Talent is about people: which country attracts the best researchers and most advanced technology companies? The fourth "battlefield" is maybe the most critical: the ultimate global leader in AI will have institutions that effectively incorporate AI into their economy, society, and especially their military.

About Paul Scharre

Paul Scharre is a former US Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The author of the award-winning study of autonomous weapons, Army of None, he is currently vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security. He lives in Virginia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on July 20, 2024

I enjoyed this book because it is what my job is all about and it took a very complex subject and boiled it down to the most salient points and considerations. It’s a great primer for anyone who might want to consider a career cyber security. Technical, but written for the average layperson (I think......more

Goodreads review by Ben on May 11, 2023

One Of The Few Books That Gets AI Right This was a really great book on military AI, AI strategies, and looking towards the future. This book OPENS with a quote from Putin, THEN a quote from Xi Jinping. It alerted me immediately as some red flags, but those concerns were quickly washed away. I believe......more

Goodreads review by Chad on March 13, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming its own separate war fighting domain, cleanly shooting off from the cyber realm. Deep fakes, bots, synthetic learning and other applications are so realistic that it’s hard to differentiate fact from fiction. This will increasingly be the norm and is......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on June 14, 2023

I’m glad I read this but it was much more policy heavy than I anticipated (especially US policy regarding China, but also DoD acquisition policy and international policy to establish AI norms and guard rails) — important stuff but not what I was most interested in and those areas felt pretty repetit......more

Goodreads review by Peter on May 22, 2023

Four Battlegrounds is often a thoughtful, competently written book on an important topic. It is likely the least pleasant, and most frustrating, book fitting that description that I have ever read. The title's battlegrounds refer to data, compute, talent, and institutions. Those seem like important r......more