The US gives $ 18 billion to develop weapons with artificial intelligence, in mass media.
New York Times refers, in particular, on the testing of Autonomous UAVs held in August of this year in the area of Cape cod (Massachusetts), reports TASS.
A small aircraft with six propellers, was, according to the New York Times, turned into a fighting robot, which was able to find and identify who was in the shelter of people, armed with AK-47.
In addition, the Ministry of defense is developing robotic fish that could make the raids simultaneously with manned aircraft. Already passed the tests of the missile are capable to select a target and auto combat ships, able to independently search for enemy submarines.
Overall, according to the newspaper, the appropriations for these purposes are estimated at $ 18 billion.
In addition to military experts, few people noticed that the Pentagon has made the question of the use of artificial intelligence the Central element of the strategy aimed at maintaining the US position as the largest and most powerful military force, writes the NYT.
The Pentagon spends billions of dollars on what they call Autonomous or semi-Autonomous weapons systems and strive to create an Arsenal of such weapons, which hitherto existed only in Hollywood movies and science fiction works, the newspaper continues.
According to her, these plans caused concern among scientists and those concerned about consequences of the arms race of robots. Hundreds of scientists and experts in an open letter last year warned that the creation of even the most primitive of weapon systems with artificial intelligence could lead to a global arms race, the article says.
The result will be fully Autonomous robots that can kill. The production costs will be small and they will be available not only for big powers but also for extremist groups, the newspaper said.
Recall, the Pentagon has announced that it has spent at least 58 billion dollars over the past two decades on weapons systems that ultimately were never implemented. The biggest failure was the “future Combat systems” (Future Combat System), which accounted for more than $ 20 billion of the total wasted funds.
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