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China follows the US in building a fleet of autonomous, AI-powered submarines, ready 2020

This is a guest post by Jeremy Leggett. Views are the author's own and do not necessarily represent the opinions or positions of MyGridGB or Dr Andrew Crossland.

Onboard AI systems will make decisions on course and depth. It is unclear, the Singularity Hub reports, whether they will have autonomous kill / no-kill decisionmaking power – which ships to attack. i.e. whether they will be giant killer robots.

A new, unnecessary. cold-war-revisited, arms race.

Image: Lockheed Martin