You Can't Stockpile AI: Military Advantage in the Age of Algorithmic Diffusion
Article published via West Point's Modern War Institute here.
I was inspired to write this article by a conversation between Lex Fridman, Nathan Lambert, and Sebastian Raschka. In it, the three discuss the idea that the majority of the key ideas in AI can no longer be hoarded by one or a select few frontier labs, and instead these ideas are prone to widespread diffusion. While listening, I grew interested in the question of what this techno-social condition implies for AI competition between the US and China, with a particular eye towards military implications.