Revealing the super weapon of the 21st century

The new superweapon of the 21st century will not be atomic or thermonuclear bombs but self-learning artificial intelligence systems that have been developed by leading powers.

Artificial intelligence is the super weapon of the 21st century.

French futurist Jean-Christophe Boni said so at a press conference in the "Kaspersky Lab" on the occasion of the Kaspersky Geek Picnic festival.

"Nelson Mandela wrote back in 1995 that the main weapon of the 21st century would be created to replace nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction of the 20th century. In fact, I believe that it will be an artificial intelligence system for its work, which, in contrast to the atomic bomb, will not require uranium, processing plants and other hard-to-find things, but only silicon and electricity," - the French researcher said.

As he notes, the very fact of creating or developing an AI system is impossible to monitor in the same way that the IAEA and other nuclear agencies track traces of uranium, plutonium, or other radioactive nuclei besides secret facilities in North Korea or Iran. So the emergence of such “superweapons” would be extremely complex or even impossible to predict.

"Politicians and representatives of law enforcement agencies of France, Israel and many other countries deny that they are developing similar systems for conducting cyber warfare. If this is true, we simply will not be able to check. But I believe that such research is underway, and it is the main strategic task for most of the world's leading powers," - the scientist summarized.

According to Sputnik