The new AI arms race changing the war in Ukraine

BBC:

“This technology is our future threat,” warns Serhiy Beskrestnov, who has just got his hands on a newly intercepted Russian drone.

It was no ordinary drone either, he discovered. Assisted by artificial intelligence, this unmanned aerial vehicle can find and attack targets on its own.

Beskrestnov has examined numerous drones in his role as Ukrainian defence forces consultant.

Unlike other models, it didn’t send or receive any signals, so could not be jammed.

Russian and Ukrainian forces have both been testing AI in this war, and in some areas they are already using it, for finding targets, gathering intelligence and de-mining.

And for the Ukrainian army, AI has become indispensable.

“Our military gets more than 50,000 video streams [from the front line] every month which are analysed by artificial intelligence,” says Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Yuriy Myronenko.

“This helps us quickly process this massive data, identify targets and place them on a map.”