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The Strategic Computing Program at four years: Implications and intimations

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Examining the Strategic Computing Program after four years, in the context of the crucial recognition that it is only a small part of the whole range of military artificial intelligence applications, suggests a number of clear implications and intimations about such crucial questions as: 1) the current roles of industry and the universities in developing high technology war; 2) the effects on political and military policy of high-tech weapons systems; and 3) the importance of advanced military computing to subtle philosophical dilemmas including human self-definition and the future of war.

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Gray, C.H. The Strategic Computing Program at four years: Implications and intimations. AI & Soc 2, 141–149 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01891378

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