The United States Pentagon, headquarters for the Department of Defense, is set to invest roughly $1.8 billion, per a new military budget, to amass thousands of small and nimble AI-powered drones, surveillance craft, and other devices.

These new militarized AI machines will be designed to be “small, smart, and cheap,” deputy defense secretary Katherine Hicks said during a defense conference on September. This new AI armada is expected to deploy in three years, she said, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Imagine distributed pods of self-propelled [autonomous] systems afloat, powered by the sun and other virtually limitless resources, packed with sensors…enough to give us new, reliable sources of information in near-real time.

Marine general Karsten Heckl, deputy commandant for procurement, told The Wall Street Journal in statement, that the U.S. is behind the 8-ball compared to other nations such as China, which has been introducing and retrofitting their military weaponry with AI-powered functionality.

Industry is well ahead of us. We’re trying to catch up.

Heckl said

SEE: China Reportedly Develops Weapon To Alter Brain Function And Disorient Enemy Soldiers

The Pentagon is also debating ground-based systems that offers logistics and armed, airborne drones that could autonomously make their own targeting decisions; which would require clearance by living operators before firing. They devices would also be programmed to recognize and defend against incoming missile strikes.

SEE: Israel Debuts New AI-Powered Tank, Allowing For More Advanced Tank Combat


AUTHOR COMMENTARY

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Tell that to the U.S. military and others abroad, who would have us killed and spill blood in exchange for a shiny coin. Again, as always it seems, the pinnacle of “evolution” and innovation revolves being able to more effectively kill each other in some new facet.


[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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