AI is in its toddler stage.
It can barely stumble out of the crib—and the author assures us it will never turn into a mass murderer.
The big advances and a lot of money are going into autonomous weapons systems.
Just the stuff coming out of the “hard tech” startups is getting distressingly capable. And we’re not even seeing what the established players have deployed.
People think it’s all crummy chat bots and bad search engines, and aren’t paying enough attention, imho, to the self-directed munitions.