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Promise or Peril? Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Interaction, and the Risk of War
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Promise or Peril? Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Interaction, and the Risk of War

Against the backdrop of increasing global tensions, transformative technologies—notably artificial intelligence—are poised to revolutionize how the military wages war and how leaders think about, prepare for, and decide to go to war.

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By Adam McCauley
Published on Feb 3, 2026
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Global Order and Institutions

Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions Program identifies promising new multilateral initiatives and frameworks to realize a more peaceful, prosperous, just, and sustainable world. That mission has never been more important, or more challenging. Geopolitical competition, populist nationalism, economic inequality, technological innovation, and a planetary ecological emergency are testing the rules-based international order and complicating collective responses to shared threats. Our mission is to design global solutions to global problems.

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