RT Book
T1 The double black box: national security, artificial intelligence, and the struggle for democratic accountability
A1 Deeks, Ashley S.
LA English
PP New York
PB Oxford Unversity Press
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1901767884
AB "This book addresses a pressing challenge posed by artificial intelligence: its use may weaken democratic accountability for consequential U.S. national security choices, including war. To ensure that those choices adhere to the public law values of rationality, legality, and accountability, we rely on Congress and the courts, as well as foreign allies, whistleblowers, and even U.S. technology companies. But their work is hindered by the classified, "black box" nature of the Executive's national security decision-making. The rise of AI systems to enhance national security decision-making-or even make autonomous decisions-deepens this critique, because it is difficult to understand how AI algorithms, often described as "black boxes," reach their conclusions. How can we be confident that these AI systems comport with our laws and values? The widespread use of AI inside the national security ecosystem renders U.S. national security choices even more opaque to the public, congressional overseers, U.S. allies, and even the officials making the decisions. This "double black box" raises critical challenges for democratic accountability. Because China is committed to becoming the world leader in AI and faces fewer legal and values-based constraints in its pursuit of military AI, democracies' commitment to using AI in lawful and ethical ways will be tested. The book defines and explores the double black box phenomenon and then identifies ways that policymakers, military and intelligence officials, and lawyers in democratic states such as the United States can reap the advantages of advanced technologies without surrendering their public law values"--
CN KF4850
SN 978-0-19-752090-1
K1 National Security : Law and legislation : United States
K1 Artificial Intelligence : Law and legislation : United States
K1 Government accountability : United States
K1 Anti-Terror-Gesetze
K1 Artificial Intelligence
K1 COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence
K1 Künstliche Intelligenz
K1 LAW / Computer & Internet
K1 LAW / Military
K1 LAW / Taxation
K1 Military & defence law
K1 Militär- und Verteidigungsrecht, Recht des Zivildiensts, Freiwilligendienst
K1 Terrorism law