The Pentagon is getting serious about AI weapons

Aerospace engineer Mike Griffin says he is taking the threat of drone swarms — including those that could be driven by artificial intelligence — seriously. So is his employer, the US Department of Defense, as are top officials in the US Air Force.
The threat is no longer theoretical. During an April 9th Washington, DC conference on the future of war sponsored by the nonprofit think tank New America, Griffin, a former space program director, who in February became the undersecretary