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UK and allies seek to arm Ukraine with AI-enabled swarm drones


The UK is working with countries, including the US, to provide Ukraine with thousands of new artificial intelligence-enabled UAVs that can simultaneously attack Russian targets. Source: Bloomberg, citing its sources Details: One participant in the programme noted that AI-enabled drones would be deployed in large fleets that would communicate with each other to target Russian positions, with no human operator needed to control each one.

Details: One participant in the programme noted that AI-enabled drones would be deployed in large fleets that would communicate with each other to target Russian positions, with no human operator needed to control each one. On 15 February, during a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels, the partners committed to supplying Ukraine with 1 million drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In a New York Times piece late last year, the Gray Lady broke down how the current boom in AI came to be -- highlighting many of the usual suspects like Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Larry Page.

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