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How AI will revolutionise warfare

How AI will revolutionise warfare

Michael Hirsh

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When it comes to advanced artificial intelligence, much of the debate has focused on whether white-collar workers are now facing the sort of extinction-level threat that the working class once did with robotics. And while it’s suddenly likely that AI will be capable of duplicating a good part of what lawyers, accountants, teachers, programmers, and – yes – journalists do, that’s not even where the most significant revolution is likely to occur.

“I can easily imagine a future in which drones outnumber people in the armed forces pretty considerably,” says Douglas Shaw, senior advisor at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. AP

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