CJI Forum Artificial Intelligence in the Fight against Terrorism
Today I want to take you into the realm of Artificial Intelligence and look at its potential to create an impact in the fight against terrorism.
The aim of AI (artificial intelligence) is to get at what is happening when one’s mind silently and invisibly chooses, from a myriad of alternatives, which one makes most sense in a very complex situation. In many real-life situations, deductive reasoning is inappropriate, not because it would give wrong answers, but because there are too many correct but irrelevant statements which can be made; there are just too many things to take into account simultaneously for reasoning alone to be sufficient.
— Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is a concept that is too big to ignore and too exciting to deny. We should not be frightened by it—either its “hype” or its implied shortfalls—but rather should use it as an aid in the development of practical tools. The concept has a wider application than computer systems alone and should be viewed as a vehicle that helps us to think about the way in which we reason, how we draw inferences from given facts, and what rules we use to tie those facts together.
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