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Professor at King's College London
Professor Kenneth Payne has published numerous research papers, chapters and books. Recent major works include:
I Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict (London: Hurst & Co. 2021; New York, OUP, 2021)
Strategy, Evolution, and War: From Apes to Artificial Intelligence (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018)
The Psychology of Modern Conflict: Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature and a Liberal Approach to War (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Kenneth Payne is Professor of Strategy at King's College London. His research is in political psychology and strategic studies. His latest book, I, Warbot , considers the ways in which Artificial Intelligence will change strategy. It was chosen as a book of the year by The Economist newspaper and by leading IR journal International Affairs.
Earlier books explored the evolution of strategy from apes and early humans to Artificial Intelligence; strategy in the Vietnam War, and the relationship between human evolution and modern, liberal warfare.
Professor Payne has consulted for the governments of the United Kingdom and United States. He’s appeared before Parliamentary committees in the UK and Netherlands. He’s been a NATO research fellow and visiting fellow at Oxford University.