Editor’s Note: This is the final installment of a three-part series delving into the role of artificial intelligence (AI) within the United States’ comprehensive national defense and security strategy. The authors assess the advantages and limitations of AI as it is employed to enhance, integrate, and potentially supplant human decision-making processes. You can find the first article here and the second article here.Advanced AI seems to tap into some primal human fears.An empowered military AI (EMAI) that independently makes lethal decisions is scary. Ancient mythology is full of stories of creators being destroyed by their creations, as when the Olympian...