Nikkei

China gains in race to develop AI-enabled weapons

New technologies "will perhaps give future warfare unmanned, intangible and silent" characteristics, the most recent edition of "The Science of Military Strategy," a Chinese textbook, states. China is hastening the advent of such warfare based partly on its estimates of how the U.S. military will look in the future. One study cited in the PLA Daily last year suggested that by 2040, robots and other unmanned systems will outnumber people within the American armed forces.

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