Can AI make strategic choices, and do they look anything like human ones? Here, we outline our ongoing research into machine decision-making in military scenarios. Using dynamic crisis simulations, we are exploring aspects of strategic theory - including deterrence, compellence and escalation. Early findings point to a distinctive 'machine psychology' that is in some respects similar to humans - with biases and heuristics; but in others very different. 

Join Professor Dr Rahul Mukherji, Modern Politics of South Asia Chair at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, for a lecture and conversation with Professor Maya Tudor, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government.