Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues at the Intersection of National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Performance Enhancement
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Horizon scanning is intended to identify opportunities and threats associated with technology, regulatory, and social change. Here, we report the results of a new horizon scan based on inputs of an international group of 33 participants, focusing on future issues arising from the military use of artificial intelligence (AI) for augmenting human performance. The final list of 12 issues includes topics spanning from the political (educating and training individuals to accept and work with AI), to the regulatory (issues of consent to human-AI teaming and hybridization), to security (the hackability of neural devices that connect to AI), to philosophical (the nature and phenomenology of brain-to-brain interfaces). The early identification of such issues is relevant to researchers, policymakers, military practitioners, and the wider public.
Source: Science and Engineering Ethics
Authors: Blake Hereth, Gérard de Boisboissel, Martin CM Bricknell, Maria Brincker, William Casebeer, Jovana Davidovic, Jeremy Davis, Jacob Earl, Nir Eisikovits, Daniel Feldman, Lucas França Garcia, Frédéric Gilbert, Vincent Guérin, Adam Henschke, James Hughes, Dominique Lambert, Sahar Latheef, Jonathan D. Moreno, Ian Shane Peebles, Michelle T Pham, Shira Pindyck, Ilya Rudyak, Nariyoshi Shinomiya, Neil D Shortland, Robert Sparrow, Joseph Stramondo, Laure Tabouy, Paul Tubig, David Whetham, Nicholas G. Evans
Institutions: Western Michigan University, King's College London, University of Massachusetts Boston, University of Iowa, United States Naval Academy, University of Georgia, Georgetown University, University of Tasmania, Université catholique de l'ouest, Université d'Angers, University of Twente, University of Namur, Australian National University, University of Pennsylvania, Arizona State University, Michigan State University, National Defense Medical College, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Australian Research Council, Monash University, San Diego State University, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre Gilles-Gaston Granger, Georgia Southern University
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,090
OpenAlex ID: W4416953766