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Eric Schmidt Is Testing AI Military Drones
After founding the secretive military drone company White Stork last year, the former Google CEO has also begun testing prototypes with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
Now, the stealth startup has begun testing its artificial intelligence-guided aircraft, both at the Menlo Park headquarters of Schmidt’s family office Hillspire and on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine, where the former Google CEO has continually touted himself as the country’s preeminent defense tech guru. Over the past several months, White Stork has poached at least a dozen employees from Apple, SpaceX, Google, federal government agencies and the billionaire’s own philanthropic organization, Schmidt Futures, multiple sources told Forbes. Since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Schmidt has positioned himself as a pundit on the conflict, writing several prominent op-eds about the country’s battle strategies and a new age of “networked war.” For the Wall Street Journal, he bullishly predicted that “suicide” or “kamikaze” drones, loitering munitions that opportunistically wait for their targets before obliterating them, would remake warfare.
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