The new weapon is intended to change the principles of warfare.
Among these know-how, the drones are able to find and identify the enemy. The authors of the article also described what he saw on one of the polygons of the US defense Department.
“No one piloting the drone, the usual car that you can buy on Amazon. Equipped with advanced software of artificial intelligence, he turned into a robot that could find and identify on the village half a dozen men with copies of the AK-47, who pretended to be militants,” – said in the article.
In addition to the implementation of AI algorithms in aerial drones, the military is going to equip these software and the US Navy ships that will be expected to seek out and destroy the enemy submarine.
According to the newspaper, the Pentagon is developing unmanned fighters that can operate near manned aircraft, missiles, who “decide what to attack”, and Autonomous drones for protracted pursuit of the enemy on the water.
Unbeknownst to all, who are not part of the military, the Pentagon has placed research in the AI part at the centre of its strategy to maintain its military superiority on a global level, the newspaper writes.
“They spend billions of dollars on the development of what is called “Autonomous and semi-Autonomous weapons” and the establishment of a weapons Arsenal which until now existed only in Hollywood movies and science fiction”, the article says.
Reporters noted that the direction in which the work of the defense sector of the United States, “caused alarm” among scientists and activists who are concerned about the arms race in terms of robotics.
“If Stanley Kubrick had photographed his “Dr. Strangelove…”, the movie would be on the topic of Autonomous weapons,” said a researcher from MIT’s Michael Schrage.
The Pentagon has allocated $18 billion for the development of new types of weapons.
