Izumi Nakamitsu on Exploring the Geopolitics of Technology: Insights into Military Applications of AI

<p>There are similarities between the UN’s efforts to pursue a disarmament strategy for nuclear weapons and the regulation of the military applications of AI. Given the multiple parallel initiatives on this issue, inputs would also have to be gathered from a range of stakeholders already working on the issue, such as the REAIM participants, the United States, and other countries, in order to regulate AI in the military domain. The private sector has a role here to drive governance on this topic as well, given that most of the technology emanates from their R&D efforts. Here, more regulation should not be seen as a roadblock to innovation; instead, it can accelerate it. This is because empirically-based regulations would allow the adoption of such AI systems to be faster. The lack of any such regulation could even lead to undesirable outcomes, which may hamper the growth of the industry.  </p><p>In this episode of Interpreting India, <a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/profiles/kim-won-soo-0">Izumi Nakamitsu</a> joins <a href="https://carnegieindia.org/experts/2102">Konark Bhandari</a> to discuss the military applications of AI.</p><p><strong>EPISODE CONTRIBUTORS</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/profiles/kim-won-soo-0">Izumi Nakamitsu</a> assumed her position as under-secretary-general and high representative for disarmament affairs on May 1, 2017. Prior to taking on this post, she served as assistant administrator of the Crisis Response Unit at the United Nations Development Programme since 2014. She has many years of experience within and outside the UN system, most recently as special adviser ad interim on follow-up to the Summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants between 2016 and 2017. She was previously director of the Asia and the Middle East Division of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations between 2012 and 2014 and director of the Department’s Division of Policy, Evaluation and Training from 2008 to 2012. She holds a Master of Science degree in forei