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A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it.***In case you missed it, AI is everywhere. Office workers are using AI chatbots to write their emails, photographers are winning prestigious awards with AI-generated images, and you’ll never actually know if we used ChatGPT to write this. However, top of mind for defense analysts — and many of our readers — is how AI will be used by the military and how the technology could shape the future of warfare.We asked three experts to tell us what they think. Read more below.Ben Jensen Professor of Strategic Studies, School of Advanced Warfighting, Marine Corps University; Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International StudiesGenerative AI will change the world but neither in a manner nor at the pace predicted. Technology is an extension of the people who use it. Our ancestors used tools before we were human, making technological development part of evolution. And evolution is prone to punctuated equilibrium. Change appears faster today because machine-learning algorithms enable the novel generation of text and images. How this democratization of creation affects humanity remains uncertain. The internet was supposed to be a liberal utopia, but has more cat videos and porn than John Locke and Socrates. Tragically, generative AI may share this fate. Paul Scharre Vice President and Director of Studies, Center for a New American SecurityAI has the potential to radically transform military operations. Just as the industrial revolution increased the physical scale and destructiveness of warfare, AI could change the cognitive dimensions of war. In games, AI agents have achieved superhuman performance through superior speed, precision, coordination, situational awareness, long-range