AI Technology in Military- How China and India are Fighting Against the Best Odds?

AI technology in military might put India at a greater risk as China is making huge strides in this area

Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhances the human mind and creativity in exciting ways across virtually every domain. It is the engine driving the current AI technology disruption that is shaking the societal infrastructure. The use of the term though not defined as a technical representation, it involves the whole ecosystem of technologies that AI propels forward including quantum calculating, semiconductors, nanotechnology, medical technology, and brain-machine terminal.

On the other hand, AI technology is the holy grail of technology; the development that people hope will tackle issues across virtually every domain of our lives. On the other hand, it disrupts various delicate equilibriums and conflicts on several fronts. Given the huge canvas on which AI's impact is being felt, one requires a simple lens to learn its difficult ramifications in an applicable way.

As the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) looks to become a leader in AI Technology in military its encouragement of advanced weapons systems keeps provoking intense concern from its neighbors and rivals. The Chinese military and China's defense industry have been pursuing important investments in robotics, swarming, and multiple applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). 

China's war with India will be suggestive of the 1991 Gulf War during which the US military's battle networks linking sensors to shooters and directing munitions with help from space resources had induced shock and amazement in militaries worldwide. Also, China's war with India will stun the planet with the usage of AI Technology, multi-domain services, imaginative war concepts, and work between humans and intelligent robots.

China has been developing for this since the 2017 Doklam crisis after which it permanently expanded its troops across the Line of Actual Control – leading to a deadlock that has continued for two years without any real signs of resolution.

The creator argues that China's superpower status will only increase and the capability lag among the two countries will increase. And if there is a complete war, the Indian Military will be no match for China's AI-backed war devices.

In such a war, traditional conventional forces will be at large disadvantage, nuclear weapons will have no role to play, and the valor of specific soldiers will be of no result. India is refining its strengths to fight a war in the three physical areas of land, air, and sea, as much as the PLA is working on becoming the overwhelmingly better force in seven domains such as air, land, sea (involving deep-sea warfare), outer area, cyber space, the electromagnetic spectrum, and near space (a.k.a the hypersonic domain).

The PLA's disruptive innovations will overwhelm India within the first 72 hours of hostilities commencing, and will lead to the fast end of India's resistance, the author writes, as the basic battleground will not be on land but in cyberarea and the electromagnetic spectrum.

Both China and the India are enhancing their weapons systems to fight wars with best autonomous weapons, and the approaches and tactical decision-creating will be supported by AI-based systems capable of considering complex situations and taking separate action. Besides competing precisely against each other, the India and China will also compete for control over satellite countries and new colonies. This results from the fact that the disruptive innovation will weaken several sovereign states and destabilise fragile political stability.

China's rise to power in this century should be contrasted with Britain's emergence as the globe power in the 1700s. Britain full dominance through the Industrial Revolution and China aspires to complete it through the AI technology. China has proficiently catapulted itself from a poor country to an imperial power, maintaining its influence over Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia. China has gambled its whole country-developing strategy, took high risks, and made bold long-term investments.

There is no serious fighting to surveillance in China. China is securing its technology and financial capital to colonize several countries, most especially Pakistan and developing countries in Africa. Colonization protects strategic trade routes, sources of raw materials, and captive industry for its industrial goods. In several places, China has continually started utilizing AI facial recognition to monitor populations on behalf of totalitarian regimes. A key contributor to the consolidation of AI-based world power big data harvest from poor nations where it is simply being used to take benefit of ignorant and corrupt leaders.