A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare

The Pentagon’s Replicator initiative envisions swarms of low-cost autonomous machines that could remake the American arsenal.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ai-and-the-next-generation-of-drone-warfare

As she envisions it, there will be “constellations” of these systems “flung into space, scores at a time”; pods of small, solar-propelled boats outfitted with sensors, trawling the ocean and relaying real-time intelligence; and “flocks” of aerial drones, some conducting surveillance and others carrying weapons