Kenneth Payne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Payne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Payne |
| SIGNATURE | PAYNE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4688-9285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ai Ir
Over the past decade, rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed a range of areas, from medicine to strategic games and communication technologies, from art and culture to everyday office work. It would be naïve to assume that this evolution does not permeate and alter international affairs. Building on, and solidifying, a thriving yet still fragmented emerging literature on “AI IR,” this forum gathers several critical diagnos…
I, Warbot
Artificial Intelligence is going to war. Intelligent weapon systems are here today, and many more are on the way tomorrow. Already, they're reshaping conflict—from the chaos of battle, with pilotless drones, robot tanks and uninhabited submersibles, to the headquarters far from the action, where generals and politicians use technology to weigh up what to do. AI changes how we fight, and even how likely it is that we will. In battle, warbots will …
Strategy, Evolution, and War
Artificial Intelligence
Removing emotion from nuclear strategy was not ultimately possible; artificial intelligence makes it possible, and therein lies its true radicalism and greatest risk
Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
We argue that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will, in the very near future, have a profound impact on the conduct of strategy and will be disruptive of existing power balances. To do so, we review the psychological foundations of strategy and explore the ways in which AI will impact human decision-making. We then review current and evolving capabilities in ‘narrow’, modular AI that is optimised to perform in a particular environment, and explore it…
The Psychology of Strategy
How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers, this book draws on the study of psychology to examine strategic behaviour during the Vietnam War. It explores the ways in which cognitive biases distort our sense of our own agency and our decision-making. The Nixon and Johnson administrations both prove…
Psychology of Strategy
Risk and the Fog of War
Strategy entails making judgements about risk and probability. Humans depart from theoretical rationality in gauging risk in a number of ways, including exaggerating the likelihood of low-probability but highly vivid events. They also overestimate their own capacity to influence events, via an optimism bias. Additionally, they are inclined to be much more tolerant of risk when they perceive themselves to be losing, relative to some goal. Lastly, …
The Psychology of Modern Conflict
What does modern warfare, as fought by liberal societies, have in common with our human evolution? This study posits an important relationship between the two we have evolved to fight, and traditional
Fighting on
Why do states persist in enduring, expensive conflicts when the costs seem so high, the potential benefits, at best, somewhat ambiguous? This article suggests that emotional psychology can provide some insights into this problem. Decision-makers construct a vision of the future that is greatly informed by affect. How they feel in the present has a big impact on their conception of events and their decisions about them. The risks they are prepared…
Social Psychology in Classic Counterinsurgency Writing
Building the Base
Al Qaeda has developed a coherent strategy for insurgent violence that has much in common with the focoism advocated by Che Guevara in the 1960s. In their strategic writing, explored here, key Islamist strategists stress the role of violence in creating revolution, and describe the export of committed fighters to focoist enclaves at the margins of enemy control. In contrast to some prominent themes in recent scholarship, the article argues that p…
Morgenthau
Winning the Battle of Ideas
Propaganda is at the heart of the struggle between Al Qaeda's strain of militant Islamism and the governments of the United States and United Kingdom. In an ideological struggle, propaganda is critical in shaping outcomes. Both Al Qaeda and the U.S. and U.K. governments recognize this, and have devised propaganda strategies to construct and disseminate messages for key audiences. This article considers the key elements in the Al Qaeda propaganda …
The Media as an Instrument of War
T he media, in the modern era, are indisputably an instrument of war. This is because winning modern wars is as much dependent on carrying domestic and international public opinion as it is on defeating the enemy on the battlefield. And it remains true regardless of the aspirations of many journalists to give an impartial and balanced assessment of conflict
Astrofuturism
Book Review| April 01 2005 Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in SpaceDe Witt Douglas Kilgore, Kenneth Payne Kenneth Payne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (1): 99–102. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718711 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth Payne; Astrofuturism: Science, Race, …
The Killers Inside Them
European defence autonomy
With recent events in Bosnia and Kosovo providing evidence of an increasing American reluctance to commit ground forces in support of European security, the members of the European Union have understandably begun work on the creation of an autonomous defence capability. Closer European integration and the changing strategic value of the region to the US have created the incentive for a more coherent European approach on defence issues, but the im…
"The Night Visitor"
Commentators are agreed on central position taken by Night Visitor (1928) in B. Traven canon, and on unusual complexity of story. Donald Chankin placed it among Traven's finest works, Michael Baumann rated it as perhaps most important of stories, while Robert T Goss has described it as one of author's few attempts at carefully organized and balanced architecture.' There has been less consensus, though, as to what story actually means. In Chankin'…
Winning the Battle of Ideas
Propaganda is at the heart of the struggle between Al Qaeda's strain of militant Islamism and the governments of the United States and United Kingdom. In an ideological struggle, propaganda is critical in shaping outcomes. Both Al Qaeda and the U.S. and U.K. governments recognize this, and have devised propaganda strategies to construct and disseminate messages for key audiences. This article considers the key elements in the Al Qaeda propaganda …
Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
We argue that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will, in the very near future, have a profound impact on the conduct of strategy and will be disruptive of existing power balances. To do so, we review the psychological foundations of strategy and explore the ways in which AI will impact human decision-making. We then review current and evolving capabilities in ‘narrow’, modular AI that is optimised to perform in a particular environment, and explore it…
Fighting on
Why do states persist in enduring, expensive conflicts when the costs seem so high, the potential benefits, at best, somewhat ambiguous? This article suggests that emotional psychology can provide some insights into this problem. Decision-makers construct a vision of the future that is greatly informed by affect. How they feel in the present has a big impact on their conception of events and their decisions about them. The risks they are prepared…
Building the Base
Al Qaeda has developed a coherent strategy for insurgent violence that has much in common with the focoism advocated by Che Guevara in the 1960s. In their strategic writing, explored here, key Islamist strategists stress the role of violence in creating revolution, and describe the export of committed fighters to focoist enclaves at the margins of enemy control. In contrast to some prominent themes in recent scholarship, the article argues that p…
Social Psychology in Classic Counterinsurgency Writing
Ai Ir
Over the past decade, rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed a range of areas, from medicine to strategic games and communication technologies, from art and culture to everyday office work. It would be naïve to assume that this evolution does not permeate and alter international affairs. Building on, and solidifying, a thriving yet still fragmented emerging literature on “AI IR,” this forum gathers several critical diagnos…
The Psychology of Modern Conflict
What does modern warfare, as fought by liberal societies, have in common with our human evolution? This study posits an important relationship between the two we have evolved to fight, and traditional
Artificial Intelligence
Removing emotion from nuclear strategy was not ultimately possible; artificial intelligence makes it possible, and therein lies its true radicalism and greatest risk
"The Night Visitor"
Commentators are agreed on central position taken by Night Visitor (1928) in B. Traven canon, and on unusual complexity of story. Donald Chankin placed it among Traven's finest works, Michael Baumann rated it as perhaps most important of stories, while Robert T Goss has described it as one of author's few attempts at carefully organized and balanced architecture.' There has been less consensus, though, as to what story actually means. In Chankin'…
European defence autonomy
With recent events in Bosnia and Kosovo providing evidence of an increasing American reluctance to commit ground forces in support of European security, the members of the European Union have understandably begun work on the creation of an autonomous defence capability. Closer European integration and the changing strategic value of the region to the US have created the incentive for a more coherent European approach on defence issues, but the im…
The Killers Inside Them
The Media as an Instrument of War
T he media, in the modern era, are indisputably an instrument of war. This is because winning modern wars is as much dependent on carrying domestic and international public opinion as it is on defeating the enemy on the battlefield. And it remains true regardless of the aspirations of many journalists to give an impartial and balanced assessment of conflict
Astrofuturism
Book Review| April 01 2005 Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in SpaceDe Witt Douglas Kilgore, Kenneth Payne Kenneth Payne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (1): 99–102. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718711 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth Payne; Astrofuturism: Science, Race, …
Winning the Battle of Ideas
Propaganda is at the heart of the struggle between Al Qaeda's strain of militant Islamism and the governments of the United States and United Kingdom. In an ideological struggle, propaganda is critical in shaping outcomes. Both Al Qaeda and the U.S. and U.K. governments recognize this, and have devised propaganda strategies to construct and disseminate messages for key audiences. This article considers the key elements in the Al Qaeda propaganda …
Morgenthau
Building the Base
Al Qaeda has developed a coherent strategy for insurgent violence that has much in common with the focoism advocated by Che Guevara in the 1960s. In their strategic writing, explored here, key Islamist strategists stress the role of violence in creating revolution, and describe the export of committed fighters to focoist enclaves at the margins of enemy control. In contrast to some prominent themes in recent scholarship, the article argues that p…
Social Psychology in Classic Counterinsurgency Writing
Fighting on
Why do states persist in enduring, expensive conflicts when the costs seem so high, the potential benefits, at best, somewhat ambiguous? This article suggests that emotional psychology can provide some insights into this problem. Decision-makers construct a vision of the future that is greatly informed by affect. How they feel in the present has a big impact on their conception of events and their decisions about them. The risks they are prepared…
The Psychology of Strategy
How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers, this book draws on the study of psychology to examine strategic behaviour during the Vietnam War. It explores the ways in which cognitive biases distort our sense of our own agency and our decision-making. The Nixon and Johnson administrations both prove…
Psychology of Strategy
Risk and the Fog of War
Strategy entails making judgements about risk and probability. Humans depart from theoretical rationality in gauging risk in a number of ways, including exaggerating the likelihood of low-probability but highly vivid events. They also overestimate their own capacity to influence events, via an optimism bias. Additionally, they are inclined to be much more tolerant of risk when they perceive themselves to be losing, relative to some goal. Lastly, …
The Psychology of Modern Conflict
What does modern warfare, as fought by liberal societies, have in common with our human evolution? This study posits an important relationship between the two we have evolved to fight, and traditional
Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
We argue that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will, in the very near future, have a profound impact on the conduct of strategy and will be disruptive of existing power balances. To do so, we review the psychological foundations of strategy and explore the ways in which AI will impact human decision-making. We then review current and evolving capabilities in ‘narrow’, modular AI that is optimised to perform in a particular environment, and explore it…
Strategy, Evolution, and War
Artificial Intelligence
Removing emotion from nuclear strategy was not ultimately possible; artificial intelligence makes it possible, and therein lies its true radicalism and greatest risk
I, Warbot
Artificial Intelligence is going to war. Intelligent weapon systems are here today, and many more are on the way tomorrow. Already, they're reshaping conflict—from the chaos of battle, with pilotless drones, robot tanks and uninhabited submersibles, to the headquarters far from the action, where generals and politicians use technology to weigh up what to do. AI changes how we fight, and even how likely it is that we will. In battle, warbots will …
Ai Ir
Over the past decade, rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed a range of areas, from medicine to strategic games and communication technologies, from art and culture to everyday office work. It would be naïve to assume that this evolution does not permeate and alter international affairs. Building on, and solidifying, a thriving yet still fragmented emerging literature on “AI IR,” this forum gathers several critical diagnos…
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