From the fine article you linked (for which link I thank you):"Time compression has placed America’s senior leadership in a situation where the existing NC3 system may not act rapidly enough. Thus, it may be necessary to develop a system based on artificial intelligence, with predetermined response decisions, that detects, decides, and directs strategic forces with such speed that the attack-time compression challenge does not place the United States in an impossible position."

Had the Soviet Union had such a system in place in September, 1983, human civilization would not be around for us to be having this discussion.

If the situation is so dire as to call for serious discussions about AI control of nuclear weapons, it is dire enough for us to initiate, sponsor, and encourage global discussion over massive multi-lateral nuclear weapons reduction.

BTW: Is one of the authors the same guy as in this article?

https://www.jqpublicblog.com/navy-officer-director-of-usaf-s...

I was a bit disappointed that while they did cite this they didn't link to it.