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

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.

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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.

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