Is warfare about to become a real life video game?

 

"Many of the soothsayers in the AI business have been telling us for years now, that when AI makes the big leap into AGI, just about everything is going to change. And it will. Including the way we fight wars. We are fortunate to have forward thinkers like Elon Musk and Palmer Lucky on our team. Why? They can see the future, and how to mold products into this giant change ethos which is headed this way."

As we speed towards 2030, much is going to change. From the most minute to the largest things, change is coming. Many good things are coming to bolster peace, tranquility and health. But there is also a dark side. Our new advances in AI, robotics and new materials, is leading us into a new type of warfare. Will we still need boots on the ground as well as pilots and sailors? Absolutely. But the introduction of the new technologies will make some of our warfare look more like a real-life video game.

If you are not yet familiar with a young man named Palmer Lucky (yes, that is his real name), you will be hearing more and more about him in the next few years. He has started a new company called Anduril, and it is making quite a splash in our defense industry. He is on quite the quest right now - making America safer by building better and smarter autonomous fighting machines. Like what?

Smallish ships at sea, which even though unmanned, can deal quite a punch to the enemy. Submarines, also unmanned and smaller than our manned submarines, which can turn the tide of a sea battle. And just recently, Anduril was selected to be one of the contractors to build a multi-missioned unmanned aircraft called the Fury. All of this technology, coming from a young guy walking around in shorts and flip-flops.

The battlefield is also going to change. Look for countries, who have the technology to do it, to make mechanical soldiers. More and more autonomous tanks and supply vehicles. Robot dogs, to go into dangerous situations. Is this pie in the sky science fiction? I am afraid not. Some is already developed and starting to enter real life testing. Wait - what? You mean like the Droid Wars from Star Wars? Maybe - but that will be an event happening in the 2030's - not now.

Many of the soothsayers in the AI business have been telling us for years now, that when AI makes the big leap into AGI, just about everything is going to change. And it will. Including the way we fight wars. We are fortunate to have forward thinkers like Elon Musk and Palmer Lucky on our team. Why? They can see the future, and how to mold products into this giant change ethos which is headed this way.