Lauren Kahn, a research fellow at U.S. think tank the Council on Foreign Relations, spoke to Yomiuri Shimbun Washington Correspondent Hiroshi Tajima about the military use of emerging technologies such as drones and artificial intelligence. The following is excerpted from the interview.
This is a really interesting moment seeing how a lot of emerging technologies, and technologies that are seen as more cutting edge and newer but have been in the works for a while, come to maturity. And we are seeing that happen on the battlefield.
