Royal Navy plotting fleet of 'killer' robot ships using artificial intelligence

Navy chiefs are planning a fleet of "killer" robot ships which can think for themselves, we can reveal. They will have stealth technology, advanced radar, lasers and rail-guns capable of firing shells at 4,500mph. The vessels will use artificial intelligence – computerised brains – to work out tactics far more quickly than humans. Scientists say they will operate on their own or from a control room on shore – or act as mother ships to a fleet of smaller craft designed to overwhelm conventional ships. The Royal Navy says humans would set the limits of a battle and let the ships do the rest.