Outmanned and outgunned in what has become a war of attrition against Russia, Ukraine has looked for any way to overcome its vulnerabilities on the battlefield. That search has led to the emergence of killer robots. Paul Mozur, the global technology correspondent for The Times, explains how Ukraine has become a Silicon Valley for autonomous weapons and how artificial intelligence is reshaping warfare.
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outmanned and outgunned in what has become a war of attrition against Russia, Ukraine has looked for any way to overcome its vulnerabilities on the battlefield.
That search has led to the emergence of killer robots.
Today, my colleague Paul Moser on how Ukraine has become a Silicon Valley for autonomous weapons and how artificial intelligence is reshaping modern warfare.
It's Tuesday, July 9.
Paul, when we've talked on the show about the applications of advanced artificial intelligence,
one of the scarier ideas has been that militaries around the world could use it to make autonomous killing machines, that is, killer robots.
Your reporting shows that this may already be happening.
Tell me about it.
Yeah, you know, when I first got started on my reporting, I thought this was the stuff of Sci-Fi.
Like, you think about AI hunting and killing somebody, and you think of Terminator and Arnold Schwarzenegger hunting people as a robot.
Or you think of HaL in 2001 a Space odyssey, an all knowing robot that can kill people on a spaceship.
But the thing is, the early versions of this technology that will get us there are already being developed, and they're being developed in Ukraine.