The Few-Hundred-Dollar Brain Inside a Killer Drone

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PART TWO OF TEN: THE WEAPONIZATION OF AI Part one asked who chooses the target. This one asks who built the thing that chooses. The answer is a supply chain that no single authority controls, and as of this month it no longer stops at hardware. Source: Jordan Harrison (Unsplash) On 14 August, Ukraine’s Main […]

The Terminator Moment Isn’t Coming. It May Already Be Here.

PART ONE OF TEN: THE WEAPONIZATION OF AI A strike near a Zaporizhzhia gas station has moved autonomous targeting out of the seminar room and into the evidence file. The question may no longer be whether machines will select their own targets. It is how far along that path we already are, and how little […]