India wants to use AI in weapons systems

India will enlist the help of artificial intelligence to develop weapons, defense, and surveillance systems, government officials announced today. "The world is moving towards an artificial intelligence-driven ecosystem," Dr. Ajay Kumar, secretary at the defense ministry, said in a statement. "India is also taking necessary steps to prepare our defense forces for the war of the future." A 17-person task force is working on an AI roadmap for India's armed forces, the Times of India reports. Within the next two years, the task force will recommend ways machine learning can be incorporated into the country's aviation, naval, land, cybersecurity, nuclear, and biological resources, specifically as it relates to the areas of autonomous weapons systems and unmanned surveillance.