WASHINGTON: A funny thing has happened to Google and Amazon on their path toward high-tech success: They have become crucial cogs in the U.S. national security establishment.
Both companies are expanding teams of employees with security clearances to work on projects that include deploying artificial intelligence and building digital “clouds” to offering law enforcement facial recognition tools that can even read the mood of people caught on camera.
The security establishment’s embrace of Big Tech has ruffled the feathers of traditional defense contractors and roiled employee ranks, in Google’s case, over whether the company is being drawn into what disguntled employees called "the business of war."
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WNU Editor: The future of warfare and the role that new technologies will play .... especially when it comes to software and the hardware that supports it .... is something that every major military in the world is embracing. Because of the enormous money that is already involved .... it is not surprising at all to see tech firms rush in to grab it.
1990’s SyFy becomes real. Droid armies are the goal. Drones, AI, Droids all the same thing. Soon when a USN destroyer leaves port she will travel with perhaps hundreds of autonomous drones in tow, some sailing along, many others in a mother ship.
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