Clark, Nicholas. “Commentary: The Dangers of Overreliance on Generative AI in the CT Fight.” Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, 20 Aug. 2025, ctc.westpoint.edu/commentary-the-dangers-of-overreliance-on-generative-ai-in-the-ct-fight/. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
Clark’s piece, while largely detached from my focused issue on the black box problem, still speaks to important concerns that must be considered on the continued usage of generative AI. This piece focuses primarily on the overreliance on generative AI within the military domain of counterterrorism (CT), and takes the position that these services are often detrimental to the process when utilized ‘indiscriminately’.
What is most important, despite the frequent and detailed descriptions on what we know of the generative process that these AI programs relies upon, is Clark’s argument for a push towards the education of probabilistic reasoning in humans, to refine our capacities to make inferences based on data obtained. As this is the system by which AI synthesizes answers, chains of the ‘most probable correct answer’, educating people and teaching this form of logic and reasoning will be more effective than the present use of generative AI. Clark’s stance, and one that I would seek to maintain, is that such improvements are prerequisite to the effective integration of AI into ‘CT domains’, as well as widely any other.
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