Today’s AI is more advanced and powerful than ever, directly affecting strategic stability and the offense-defense balance. Nuclear-armed states are investing in advanced AI tools and capabilities and exploring ways to leverage AI for military advantages. The complexity of nuclear command, control, and communication (NC3) systems already creates significant challenges directly impacting nuclear deterrence. With the exponential growth in AI capabilities, global security rests in a delicate balance. IST’s work is urgently needed to raise awareness, foster dialogue, and establish frameworks for stable and predictable practices.

In partnership with Longview Philanthropy, IST is pioneering action-oriented efforts to explore how advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will be integrated into nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems and subsystems. This is an important exercise to advance awareness and embark on gap analysis studies to determine how AI-NC3 integration could be stabilizing or destabilizing for nuclear-armed states. IST’s collaboration seeks to find common ground on the risks and opportunities that this integration presents.