
Hallucinations
Serious stuff, but let's hope the AI hallucinates in just the right way...
North Korea is investing in its AI capacity, and a think tank has called on cloud computing service providers to do more to ensure the hermit kingdom can’t rent the infrastructure it needs to advance its capabilities. That think tank is the Stimson Center, which publishes an organ called 38 North that aims to inform …
Well, if the AI works like NK's leadership, it'll assume it has a million ultra-elite soldiers, all with super powers, and will be facing some farm yard types with pitchforks who haven't a clue how to fight.
And so it will deem a single NK soldier as being more than capable of defeating the massed might of the world, cementing NK's place as the overlord of the world.
So we've nothing to worry about as:
a) What they might see as Ultra-elite might not measure up to a rooky Squaddie from any other army (and never underestimate the Rooky Squaddie!)
b) farm yard types with pitchforks are a force to be reckoned with: Never underestimate the pitchfork!
c) The true rulers of the Earth, our great overlords the Lizard People, might have something to say. Or not: They might just opt to respond with death rays. Fitted to sharks. Flying sharks at that. You know: Just to make a point.
Or AI proves to be as reliable as it's proving elsewhere and decides the losses of marching NK troops through a mine field are perfectly acceptable.
How do you form a battleplan when you're using 20,000 obsolete vehicles that may or may not start and 100,000 poorly trained and disastrously equipped soldiers?
Will it make it's calculations based on the actual state of their armed forces? Or base it on what they've been telling everyone for so many years?
They don't have very much experience, but what they do have is a lot of people, a willingness to see them die, and a lot of organized training. Most of the population is either in a long period of military service or has already gone through it, and while that service mostly included being used as really cheap construction and agricultural labor, it also included training on how to attack things. I'm sure they'd lose many of those people if they started to use them to attack, but they won't be too worried just because thousands are dying unnecessarily. They also have some more powerful weapons to resort to when they inevitably start failing. Those weapons may not be plentiful, but they are serious. So it's really best for everyone if we can somehow prevent them from starting a war at all, even if we would eventually win.