Elon Musk claims governments could create ‘drone wars’ with AI


Musk believes that ‘any future wars between advanced countries or at least countries with drone capability will be very much the drone wars’. — AP

LONDON: Elon Musk has revealed he expects artificial intelligence (AI) to be used by governments across the world to develop weapons before anything else.

The owner of Tesla, Space X and Twitter was speaking via video link at the annual Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) CEO Council Summit in London on Tuesday.

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