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HUMHUM-003 — Human-AI Collaboration Design Flaws

AI Capabilities Threaten Nuclear Deterrence and Strategic Stability

4/5Sector: DefenceGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

AI enables concealed first strikes, degrades nuclear command and control, and creates use-or-lose pressures that erode deterrence logic. Boards with defence exposure must treat strategic instability as a systemic risk affecting geopolitical assumptions underlying long-term planning.

Domain

Human Factors

Blindspots in change management, skills, human-AI collaboration, trust, workforce, and culture.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values (Clarke2023) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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