Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare
ASX-23-048 · Part II · Interstellar Architecture · Chapter 3: The Multiplanetary Stage
Interstellar Conflict Across Life Forms
Conflict among diverse forms of life, autonomous systems and political actors, examined through infrastructure dependence, incompatible objectives and limits on intervention.
Read the full painting meaning →This discussion examines cognitive autonomy. External intervention in cognition can undermine an agent’s ability to form or revise its own decisions. Its surrounding discussion also concerns resource access: unequal access to essential resources can create dependence and constrain meaningful participation.
The analytical issue is how these conditions affect relations between groups, conflict escalation, cooperation, and responses to unfamiliar agents. The node treats the potential dysfunction as an open problem: its identification does not demonstrate that the anticipated outcome will occur or that an assumed technology is feasible.
Main problem
External intervention in cognition can undermine an agent’s ability to form or revise its own decisions.
Central question
What safeguards would preserve voluntary decision-making when mental processes can be influenced by others?
Analytical connections
Contact Disposition
For this cognitive autonomy problem, contact disposition examines relations between groups, conflict escalation, cooperation, and responses to unfamiliar agents.
Technology
For this cognitive autonomy problem, technology examines the proposed mechanism, technical dependencies, control interfaces, and failure conditions.
Ethics / Moral Consideration
For this cognitive autonomy problem, ethics / moral consideration examines consent, exposure to harm, unequal treatment, and the scope of moral protection.
Original source prose and question wording remain in the book. The summary and central question are analytical restatements; the author’s complete wording remains in the cited source.
ASX positions and scientific context
- P4 scope
- C position: not established
- Speculative scenario
Physical scope and coordination themes describe fields of inquiry. They do not establish a measured capability or scientific validation.
Cross-domain dependencies
Conditional analytical comparisons; question-level access follows the parent discussion.
Autonomy and control of artificial systems
Delegated machine authority can affect infrastructure, environmental interventions and coercive capability. Accountability, access controls and institutional incentives can also alter how autonomous systems are deployed.
ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121; ASX-43-018: Autonomy Versus Human Control, pp. 322–323.
Open ASX-43-018Autonomy and control of artificial systems
Delegated machine authority can affect infrastructure, environmental interventions and coercive capability. Accountability, access controls and institutional incentives can also alter how autonomous systems are deployed.
ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121; ASX-43-020: AI Gone Wrong, pp. 324–324.
Open ASX-43-020Infrastructure and strategic conflict
Infrastructure can become both a strategic asset and a target. Conflict may disrupt energy, transport or communications, while dependence on those services can be exploited to constrain decisions.
ASX-13-015: The Ethics of Sabotage of Quantum Communication Devices in Spiritual Contexts, pp. 34–34; ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121.
Open ASX-13-015Infrastructure and strategic conflict
Infrastructure can become both a strategic asset and a target. Conflict may disrupt energy, transport or communications, while dependence on those services can be exploited to constrain decisions.
ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121; ASX-43-013: Resource Scarcity and Robotic Wars. The Dangers of an Interplanetary Resource War, pp. 320–321.
Open ASX-43-013Infrastructure and strategic conflict
Infrastructure can become both a strategic asset and a target. Conflict may disrupt energy, transport or communications, while dependence on those services can be exploited to constrain decisions.
ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121; ASX-73-002: Proxy Wars Among the Stars at The Multiplanetary Stage — Secret Wars Shaping the Cosmic Landscape, pp. 700–702.
Open ASX-73-002Autonomy and control of artificial systems / Infrastructure and strategic conflict
Delegated machine authority can affect infrastructure, environmental interventions and coercive capability. Accountability, access controls and institutional incentives can also alter how autonomous systems are deployed.
Infrastructure can become both a strategic asset and a target. Conflict may disrupt energy, transport or communications, while dependence on those services can be exploited to constrain decisions.
ASX-13-014: Robotics, AI, and the Reconfiguration of Spiritual Practices. The Future of Spirituality in a Technological Age, pp. 34–34; ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121.
Open ASX-13-014Autonomy and control of artificial systems / Infrastructure and strategic conflict
Delegated machine authority can affect infrastructure, environmental interventions and coercive capability. Accountability, access controls and institutional incentives can also alter how autonomous systems are deployed.
Infrastructure can become both a strategic asset and a target. Conflict may disrupt energy, transport or communications, while dependence on those services can be exploited to constrain decisions.
ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121; ASX-33-004: Isolation and Enslavement in Virtual Reality, pp. 235–236.
Open ASX-33-004Autonomy and control of artificial systems / Infrastructure and strategic conflict
Delegated machine authority can affect infrastructure, environmental interventions and coercive capability. Accountability, access controls and institutional incentives can also alter how autonomous systems are deployed.
Infrastructure can become both a strategic asset and a target. Conflict may disrupt energy, transport or communications, while dependence on those services can be exploited to constrain decisions.
ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121; ASX-33-006: Information Manipulation and Misinformation Diffusion, pp. 237–239.
Open ASX-33-006Autonomy and control of artificial systems / Infrastructure and strategic conflict
Delegated machine authority can affect infrastructure, environmental interventions and coercive capability. Accountability, access controls and institutional incentives can also alter how autonomous systems are deployed.
Infrastructure can become both a strategic asset and a target. Conflict may disrupt energy, transport or communications, while dependence on those services can be exploited to constrain decisions.
ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121; ASX-43-006: Interplanetary Communication and Co-ordination, pp. 309–311.
Open ASX-43-006Autonomy and control of artificial systems / Infrastructure and strategic conflict
Delegated machine authority can affect infrastructure, environmental interventions and coercive capability. Accountability, access controls and institutional incentives can also alter how autonomous systems are deployed.
Infrastructure can become both a strategic asset and a target. Conflict may disrupt energy, transport or communications, while dependence on those services can be exploited to constrain decisions.
ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121; ASX-43-009: Security and Cybersecurity of Robotic Systems in Multiplanetary Settlements, pp. 314–315.
Open ASX-43-009Autonomy and control of artificial systems / Infrastructure and strategic conflict
Delegated machine authority can affect infrastructure, environmental interventions and coercive capability. Accountability, access controls and institutional incentives can also alter how autonomous systems are deployed.
Infrastructure can become both a strategic asset and a target. Conflict may disrupt energy, transport or communications, while dependence on those services can be exploited to constrain decisions.
ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121; ASX-53-003: The Multiplanetary Era. Power Struggle in Interstellar Space — the Control Dynamics, pp. 459–461.
Open ASX-53-003Autonomy and control of artificial systems / Infrastructure and strategic conflict
Delegated machine authority can affect infrastructure, environmental interventions and coercive capability. Accountability, access controls and institutional incentives can also alter how autonomous systems are deployed.
Infrastructure can become both a strategic asset and a target. Conflict may disrupt energy, transport or communications, while dependence on those services can be exploited to constrain decisions.
ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121; ASX-53-004: Interstellar Misconception. The Difficulty of Human Communication Across the Stars, pp. 461–464.
Open ASX-53-004Autonomy and control of artificial systems / Infrastructure and strategic conflict
Delegated machine authority can affect infrastructure, environmental interventions and coercive capability. Accountability, access controls and institutional incentives can also alter how autonomous systems are deployed.
Infrastructure can become both a strategic asset and a target. Conflict may disrupt energy, transport or communications, while dependence on those services can be exploited to constrain decisions.
ASX-23-048: Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare, pp. 121–121; ASX-73-001: Interstellar Cosmopolitical Games on a Multiplanetary Stage. Reflections on Planetary Identities, Power Plays, and Fragmented Unity in the Cosmos, pp. 697–700.
Open ASX-73-001Associated paintings
- Astral Space Exploration: Renovatio
- Astral Space Exploration: The Cosmic Engineering. Part I
- Astral Space Exploration: The Cosmic Engineering. Part II
- Astral Space Exploration: The Cosmic Engineering. Part III
- Astral Space Exploration: The Cosmic Engineering. Part IV
- Interstellar Conflict Across Life Forms
- Technologies Across Life Forms
Source organization
- chapter context: CTX-23
Citation
Kaikhan Salakhov (2024). Astral Space Exploration: The Cosmic Renaissance: The Fundamental Principles of Cosmocybernetics. Part II, “Astral Space Exploration Grid: Interstellar Architecture Through Stages of Development”; Chapter 3, “The Multiplanetary Stage”; discussion: “Rogue AI and Military Applications. The Potential for Autonomous Warfare”, p. 121. Page references follow the supplied 852-page edition; pagination in other editions may differ. Library reference: ASX-23-048. https://www.asxgrid.app/library/records/ASX-23-048.html
Page references follow the supplied 852-page edition; pagination in other editions may differ..
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