The Wall Street Journal writes that deputy secretary of defense Kathleen Hicks will provide details later today about the DoD’s plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on thousands of air-, land- and sea-based artificial-intelligence systems that are designed to be “small, smart, cheap.”
With tensions over Taiwan continuing to rise and China’s military advantage in personnel and manned equipment, the US wants to counter its rival’s expanding military with an army of artificial intelligence-based autonomous systems, including self-piloting air- and sea-drones.
