Talk:Artificial intelligence arms race

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 17:34, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Name of Page
Okay, so the problem with this page right now as I see it is the name. General usage of 'artificial intelligence arms race" shows that 'military artificial intelligence arms race' gets around 2.4k hits on Google while 'artificial intelligence arms race' gets around 10.1k. Also, the search '"artificial intelligence arms race" AND United States AND China' gets 5.1k, showing the US-Chinese 'New Cold War' framing is probably quite important. So, going by usage, there should be a page on 'artificial intelligence arms race' as a parent with 'military AI arms race' as the child or as a main heading. The present solution, i.e., a new 'terminology' section, seems fine for the moment. However, following the logic of the LEDE, should the page name not be 'Military artificial intelligence arms race'? Just wondering. Johncdraper (talk) 08:45, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The argument against 'military artificial intelligence arms race' would be WP:CONCISE. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 04:09, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * An "arms race" usually denotes military race (thus "arms"), the Apollo project wasn't an "arms race" and neither is Google vs. Facebook, except in a very loose or over-dramatic sense. It seems to me the core of this fuzzy category is military and, to a lesser degree, military-adjacent competition, and that a page for any situation where two AI producers compete would be too broad to have much meaningful content. You've added content arguing against extending military competition terminology to general AI, which fits fine within the scope of this page, just not in the lede. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 04:09, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

suggestion to add a the capabilities of each nation in a new section
the section titiled "Stances toward military artificial intelligence" which ocupies most of the article focuses on ethics and capapbilities

i would liek to suggest splitting the informaiton within. one section will be the stances section focused on ethics opinions of each nation as well as its startegy.

and then another article, which describes the technology itself in non-vague terms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RJJ4y7 (talk • contribs) 20:34, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
 * There's a paragraph in Applications_of_artificial_intelligence that could be expanded, and we have subarticles for military robot and other specific applications. I'd say try adding material to the existing pages, and if it gets too large, we can figure out better how to split it off once we see the content. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 02:08, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

suggestion to add this article to releavnt wikiprojects
i think this will give the article access to more editors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RJJ4y7 (talk • contribs) 20:35, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Sure, feel free to just go ahead and add it when you see these. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 02:09, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Non-neutral Tone
Much of this article appears poorly structured, opinionated, and has an un-encyclopedic tone. For example, "Many Western tech companies are leery of being associated too closely with the U.S. military". I've already made edits to some of the phrasing, more input would be appreciated. Halogen487 (talk) 22:04, 23 March 2023 (UTC)