AI on the battlefield

THE prominent use of artificial intelligence in warfare lately will remind many of us in Pakistan that this is not new. The ‘signature strikes’ via drones in Pakistan by the Obama-led US administration considered any ‘military age males’ as legitimate combatant targets, a practice that led to a very high civilian casualty rate unaccounted for by the US and criticised by rights groups. The processing of footage captured by surveillance drones that constantly buzzed above Waziristan and adjoining...