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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Future of war will be in artificial intelligence, warns ex-national security adviser

Artificial intelligence is the future of war and the UK must invest in it to "punch its weight", a former national security adviser has said.

Lord Mark Sedwill told peers AI was "the future of defence capability" but it wouldn't be 'Terminator' or 'The Matrix'-style robots.

Instead, autonomous weapons could be used defensively, such as to shoot down missiles, he said.

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