China’s brightest children are being recruited to develop AI ‘killer bots’

Students would conceive and design AI as an engine or an enabling force to weaponise self-learning, intelligent and automated systems, Pauwels said.

A group of some of China’s smartest students have been recruited straight from high school to begin training as the world’s youngest AI weapons scientists.

The 27 boys and four girls, all aged 18 and under, were selected for the four-year “experimental programme for intelligent weapons systems” at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) from more than 5,000 candidates, the school said on its website.