Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning.”. Regardless of what you might think about AI, the reality is that just about every successful deployment has either one of two expedients: It has a person somewhere in the loop, or the cost of failure, should the system blunder, is very low.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2022

By the war’s end, with “not quite one arm between four persons, and exactly two legs between six,” these self-taught amputee-weaponsmiths decide to repurpose their skills toward a new projectile: a rocket ship. And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves?

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Cars That Think

APRIL 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). Ten years from now if the first person through a breach isn’t a friggin’ robot, shame on us.” Mullen III/U.S.

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