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House Armed Services Committee holds hearing on the Department of Defense using AI. China and the U.S. are locked in a race to develop new weapons controlled by artificial intelligence, a battle that could determine the world's balance of power. "The race with China to build autonomous weapons systems is the defining defense challenge of the next 100 years," Christopher Alexander, chief analytics officer at Pioneer Development Group, told Fox News Digital. The comments come as a Reuters report last month detailed the ongoing struggle between the U.S. and its allies and China over the development of AI weapons, a competition that has only become increasingly heated as the world observed the successful use of technologies to resist an invasion of seemingly superior Russian forces for over a year. US MILITARY NEEDS AI VEHICLES, WEAPON SYSTEMS TO BE'SUPERIOR' GLOBAL FORCE: EXPERTS George Bustilloz prepares for a presentation of the iRobot Warrior X700 during a demonstration of "life-saving military robots."