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This year, the Department of Defense announced that they’d entered agreements with eight artificial intelligence companies. It follows decades of popular media exploring the idea of artificial intelligence in war \u2013 from the computer threatening global thermonuclear conflict in the movie to the Skynet neural net in In 2026, when Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT are just a click away, the concept of AI-supported war is suddenly much closer to reality. So what does it really mean for militaries to use AI? And what are the potential implications if they succeed? Short Wave producer Hannah Chinn reports.<\/p>\n

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This year, the Department of Defense announced that they\u2019d entered agreements with eight artificial intelligence companies. It follows decades of popular media exploring the idea of artificial intelligence in war \u2013 from the computer threatening global thermonuclear conflict in the movie WarGames<\/em> to the Skynet neural net in Terminator. <\/em>In 2026, when Anthropic\u2019s Claude and OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT are just a click away, the concept of AI-supported war is suddenly much closer to reality. So what does it really mean for militaries to use AI? And what are the potential implications if they succeed? Short Wave producer Hannah Chinn<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Listen to the whole <\/strong>Tech Camp series<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interested in more military science and\/or tech episodes? Email us your question at <\/em>shortwave@npr.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show\u2019s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <\/em>plus.npr.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-wave"],"yoast_head":"\nCould future wars be fought by AI? - Best USA Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=8297\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Could future wars be fought by AI? - Best USA Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This year, the Department of Defense announced that they\u2019d entered agreements with eight artificial intelligence companies. 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