GC REAIM Commissioner
Professor of Strategy in the School of Security Studies at King’s College London and author of I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict.
Kenneth Payne is Professor of Strategy at King’s College London, where he researches the role of Artificial Intelligence in national security. He’s the author of four books on strategy, most recently I Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict. This book looked ahead to the battlefield of the near future and considered the prospects for creative artificial strategists. I Warbot was named a book of the year by The Economist newspaper and leading academic journal, International Affairs. In 2023, Professor Payne gave a plenary address at the inaugural REAIM conference, outlining the potential impact on strategy of large language models, able to interpret and anticipate human decision-makers.
Payne has appeared before Parliamentary committees in the UK and Netherlands, and currently serves as Specialist Advisor to the UK Parliament’s Defence Committee for its work on AI. He contributed to the US National Security Commission on AI, and has been invited to consult with the UN Secretary General’s recently formed high-level advisory body on AI.
