The Pentagon is actively pursuing the deployment of large groups of AI-enabled drones, as revealed in a notice published earlier this year, Business Insider reported.
In an August speech, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks highlighted that the use of technology like AI-controlled drone swarms could help the US counterbalance China’s People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) numerical advantage in both weapons and personnel.
“We’ll counter the PLA’s mass with mass of our own, but ours will be harder to plan for, harder to hit, harder to beat,” she said, Reuters reported.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall informed The Times that AI drones must possess the capability to make lethal decisions, all the while remaining under human supervision.
“Individual decisions versus not doing individual decisions is the difference between winning and losing — and you’re not going to lose,” he said.
“I don’t think people we would be up against would do that, and it would give them a huge advantage if we put that limitation on ourselves.”
God knows what other uses this will be put to. No one can control technology in today’s world, so this will happen. Like all weapons, it could be used for good or bad. ABN
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