Geopolitical forecasting requires you to build a good model of the conflict that you care about. Once you do have a model you can feed the model into a computer like the Bruce Bueno de Mesquita does and the computer might do better at calculating the optimal move. I don’t think that current existing AI system are up to the task of modeling a complicated geopolitical event.
I also don’t think that it is now possible to model full geopolitics, but if some smaller but effective model of it will be created by humans, it may be used by AI.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita seems to be of the opinion that even 20 years ago computer models outperformed humans once the modeling is finished but modeling seems crucial.
In his 2008 book, he advocates that the best move for Israel/Palestine would be to make a treaty that requires the two countries to share tourism revenue which each other. That’s not the kind of move that an AI like DeepMind would produce without a human coming up with the move beforehand.
So it looks like that if model creation job could be at least partly automated, it would give a strategic advantage in business, politics and military planning.
Geopolitical forecasting requires you to build a good model of the conflict that you care about. Once you do have a model you can feed the model into a computer like the Bruce Bueno de Mesquita does and the computer might do better at calculating the optimal move. I don’t think that current existing AI system are up to the task of modeling a complicated geopolitical event.
I also don’t think that it is now possible to model full geopolitics, but if some smaller but effective model of it will be created by humans, it may be used by AI.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita seems to be of the opinion that even 20 years ago computer models outperformed humans once the modeling is finished but modeling seems crucial.
In his 2008 book, he advocates that the best move for Israel/Palestine would be to make a treaty that requires the two countries to share tourism revenue which each other. That’s not the kind of move that an AI like DeepMind would produce without a human coming up with the move beforehand.
So it looks like that if model creation job could be at least partly automated, it would give a strategic advantage in business, politics and military planning.