US Defense Department To Deploy Thousands Of Fully-Autonomous, AI-Controlled Units By 2025
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The U.S. Department of Defense is pursuing a new initiative to develop a fleet of autonomous, unmanned air, water, space and land vehicles that would use artificial intelligence to perform diverse defense tasks. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks gave new details of the Pentagon’s “Replicator” project in a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. The project is expected to produce thousands of fully autonomous units ready within 18 to 24 months. Hicks described them as “small, smart, cheap and many.” Hicks made it clear that the defense department needs to speed up the development of AI-p…