The War Algorithm: The Pentagon’s Bet On The Future Of War

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 The War Algorithm: The Pentagon’s Bet On The Future Of War
By Colin Clark on May 31, 2017 at 4:01 AM

Missile Defense C2BMC Control_RoomThinking about robots and war often brings to mind HAL, the apparently well-meaning but ultimately destructive computer in 2001, or the metallic creatures of death in the Terminator series.

Today, however, the Pentagon wants to push the concept in a different direction. With advanced adversaries like Russia and China copying the smart weapons, stealth fighters, and networked electronics that were once an American monopoly, the Defense Department is urgently seeking a new technological edge. They think they’ve found a key part of it in AI, artificial intelligence.

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