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AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: autonomous weapons enter the battlefield
A squad of soldiers is under attack and pinned down by rockets in the close quarters of urban combat. One of them makes a call over his radio, and within moments a fleet of small autonomous drones equipped with explosives fly through the town square, …