Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the US military is falling behind in AI warfare and needs a ‘systemic overhaul’ [Video]

According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, AI technology is transforming war, and the US military needs an overhaul to keep up.

In a lengthy article in Foreign Affairs, Schmidt and former US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark A. Milley, outlined the future of global warfare — which is already playing out on several battlefields worldwide.

With AI technology, soldiers in Ukraine are “taking out tanks and downing planes with devastating effectiveness,” they wrote. In Myanmar and Sudan, insurgents and the government are relying on algorithms to fight. And in Gaza, Israel is fielding drones using AI.

“Future wars will no longer be about who can mass the most people or field the best jets, ships, and tanks,” they wrote. “Instead, they will be dominated by increasingly autonomous weapons systems and powerful algorithms.”

However, the United States, which remains the world’s most powerful military, hasn’t kept up with the pace of innovation, Schmidt and Milley …