Insightful article at The American Conservative: Artificial intelligence will make our forever wars truly forever
Automation on the battlefield has rapidly advanced over the past several decades, with the innocent civilians of the Mideast providing a suitable theater of war to test their tech. It’s not difficult to imagine a point in the near future when the U.S. launches it’s first drone-only war. And from that, it’s fairly easy to imagine a permanent presence of that drone army in whatever conflict zone our government deems necessary.
