Real Clear Defense | Nick Ulmer, Harrison Schramm
The article critically examines the rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into national security and broader society, highlighting its ubiquity and utility as a cost-cutting accelerant. Despite the Defense Department's incentivization of AI use, the authors raise significant concerns about accuracy, effectiveness, and the potential for "enshittification" as human roles are replaced. They argue that AI currently enjoys an unfair advantage over human judgment, particularly in high-stakes decision-making, due to a lack of rigorous "goodness" measures and an overemphasis on usability rather than correctness. Advocating for "Carbon Supremacy," the authors assert the primacy of natural human intelligence and propose modernizing taxation schemes to tax AI-generated work at rates comparable to human labor, thereby aligning economic incentives with responsibility rather than replacement. The piece concludes by emphasizing that AI should serve as an amplifier of human intelligence, not a substitute, urging discipline in deciding when to trust these powerful tools to prevent the erosion of human judgment, accountability, and ethics.
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