AI's Role in War and Peace: An Expert Q&A
NPR recently reported that the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Futures Lab is experimenting with tools such as DeepSeek and ChatGPT to explore how artificial intelligence could change—and improve—how foreign policy decisions are made. Johns Hopkins expert Russ Berkoff teaches in the Engineering Management graduate program at the Whiting School of Engineering's Engineering for Professionals. A former chief strategist at the National Security Agency, he led NSA's strategic forecasting office after 9/11 and helped shape intelligence planning for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the global war on terrorism. At the Naval Postgraduate School, he wrote his thesis on using AI to inform foreign policy decisions. He discusses the promise and peril of this emerging field. Are we moving toward using AI for foreign policy decisions in a way you recommended in your thesis 28 years ago? The short answer is yes; we are moving in the right direction. Our goal i...