AI technology has brought many benefits to the world, but could weaponizing AI be a mistake? Many advancements in AI technology have been made in recent years, especially in the military. While most of these advancements have come in the form of reconnaissance and defense, AI is also being used on the attacking end. This raises significant ethical concerns due to the limitations of AI technology, specifically in understanding context and the difference between correlation and causation. Additionally, the efficacy of AI is questioned due to these limitations. These dilemmas in integrating AI into the military have led to much skepticism and hesitancy.

The rapid advancement indicates that artificial intelligence is on its way to changing combat and that states will undoubtedly continue to build the automated weapons systems that AI will enable. Fremont, CA: The rapid acceleration in computing power, memory, big data, and high-speed communication is not only developing an innovation, investment, and application frenzy, but it is also increasing the quest for AI chips as AI, machine learning, and deep learning evolve further and move from concept to commercialization. This rapid advancement indicates that artificial intelligence is on its way to changing combat and that states will undoubtedly continue to build the automated weapons systems that AI will enable. When countries work together and individually to obtain a competitive advantage in research and technology, the weaponization of AI will become unavoidable. As a result, it's important to imagine what an algorithmic war of the future may look like because developing autonomous weapons systems is one thing, but employing them in algorithmic warfare against other states and humans is quite another.

There has been much speculation about the power and dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), but it's been primarily focused on what AI will do to our jobs in the very near future. Now, there's discussion among tech leaders, governments and journalists about how artificial intelligence is making lethal autonomous weapons systems possible and what could transpire if this technology falls into the hands of a rogue state or terrorist organization. Debates on the moral and legal implications of autonomous weapons have begun and there are no easy answers. The United Nations recently discussed the use of autonomous weapons and the possibility to institute an international ban on "killer robots." This debate comes on the heels of more than 100 leaders from the artificial intelligence community, including Tesla's Elon Musk and Alphabet's Mustafa Suleyman, warning that these weapons could lead to a "third revolution in warfare."