“The Pentagon’s tech problem is most pressing, Schmidt says, when it comes to AI. “Every once in a while, a new weapon, a new technology comes along that changes things,” he says. “Einstein wrote a letter to Roosevelt in the 1930s saying that there is this new technology—nuclear weapons—that could change war, which it clearly did. I would argue that [AI-powered] autonomy and decentralized, distributed systems are that powerful.””
Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine
https://www.wired.com/story/eric-schmidt-is-building-the-perfect-ai-war-fighting-machine/
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