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Retool AI to forecast and limit wars

Using artificial intelligence to predict outbursts of violence and probe their causes could save lives, argue Weisi Guo, Kristian Gleditsch and Alan Wilson.
  1. Weisi Guo

    1. Weisi Guo is a Turing Fellow and associate professor in the School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

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  2. Kristian Gleditsch

    1. Kristian Gleditsch is professor of political science in the Department of Government, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

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  3. Alan Wilson

    1. Alan Wilson is director of special projects at the Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.

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Armed violence is on the rise and we don’t know how to stop it1. Since 2011, conflicts worldwide have killed up to 100,000 people a year, three-quarters of whom were in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. The rate of major wars has decreased over the past few decades. But the number of civil conflicts has doubled since the 1960s, and terrorist attacks have become more frequent in the past ten years.

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Nature 562, 331-333 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07026-4

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