Almost 80 years ago, the face of warfare changed when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. As technology has advanced, a new player is waiting to enter the battlefield in the form of artificial intelligence, with military forces around the globe now racing to get AI weaponry into battle.
There's a covert arms race underway as military forces across the world compete to develop terrifying AI weaponry, according to a new documentary exploring what the future of AI in the battlefield looks like.
UNKNOWN: Killer Robots is set to premiere on Netflix on Monday, July 10. Director Jesse Sweet told the New York Post: "World leaders in Russia and China, people in the US military have said, whoever gets the advantage on AI is going to have an overwhelming technical advantage in war."