Abstract
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It is evident that artificial intelligence, which integrate actually all technologies of 4th industrial revolution will change all aspects of war laying the foundation for a new type of arms race. Therefore, the world will soon be watching a totally different war. In this context, it is obvious that in today’s world the development of artificial intelligence has become for each country ? and with great urgency for countries with a high probability of being drawn into new wars ? no matter of national security, but also the struggle for survival in general, since it quickly penetrated the army and requires an appropriate response from the state’s defense departments with an adequate speed.
The most effective way to have a strong national security system is to develop a local defense industry. The solution to this problem can certainly be quite difficult for small countries if it did not take into account the opportunities provided by the new technological age. In particular, small countries with developed human capital, which have competitive advantages in the fields of information technology (especially in software), radio electronics and precision engineering, have a real chance to become a country determining the nature of war in the cyclical development chain “technological progress-changing nature of wars” by their own development of weapons. Especially those countries that incur large defense expenditures contingent on their strategic needs, can reallocate these expenditures to the development of the high-tech sector, contributing to the development of both economic growth and national security system.
The cross-cutting theme in the current research on the military use of AI is that the armed forces of countries will continue to perform the same functions, generally maintaining the logic of military operations, but they will simply be implemented by new weapons modernized with AI within concept corresponding to new opportunities. However, it should be noted that this logic of building new security and defense systems may not be commensurate with the breakthrough changes that can actually occur as a result of the penetration of AI into the military domain. Moreover, in predicting possible changes it will often be difficult to determine where science fiction ends, and reality begins due to the presence of “elements of unusualness”. In any case, in order to move forward in considerations about the military use of AI, it will be necessary to go beyond the previously accepted conventionalities and look towards the future. In the current conditions it is almost pointless to focus on the organization of military production in the last stages of the technological cycle (maturity and decline). The new technological age constantly demands innovations and new solutions, and it first of all refers to the cognitivization of the military sphere.
In fact, there are many preconditions for the launch of "Armenian" AI in the military sphere. Perhaps, in order to direct the existing opportunities in the field to improve the national security of state, it is necessary to develop a systematized and coordinated economic policy in all concerning areas – human capital development, improvement of ecosystem for digital transformation of economy, implementation of new financing approaches, development of venture entrepreneurship, introduction of public-private partnership mechanisms, more efficient distribution of government expenditures , etc. – which will ensure the development of defense industry based on high-tech due to the synergistic effect.
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