Everyone is racing to ride the AI wave, and the U.S. military doesn’t want to be late to the party.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks unveiled the Pentagon’s new Replicator initiative at a defense innovation conference on Monday. The goal, she said, is to “field attritable autonomous systems at scale of multiple thousands, in multiple domains, within the next 18 to 24 months.”

“Attritable” means the robots are cheap enough to be “placed at risk and lost if the mission is of high priority,” Hicks explained—basically the military equivalent of pawns on a chess board. The goal is rapidly developing swarms of smart, disposable air, land, and sea vehicles that can outmaneuver enemies.

Hicks cited China’s growing military as the key motivation, saying the U.S. will counter their “mass with mass of our own” using American ingenuity.

Right now only a handful of developed countries are using and exploring AI for military operations. According to an AI arms race compilation on Wikipedia, the list includes China, Russia,
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