Andreessen: Future military warfare will be fully autonomous and software-driven
Marc Andreessen · Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future · Dec 12, 2019 · at 39:20
Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses the future of warfare and defense technology with Kevin Kelly at the a16z Summit.
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“If you kind of project forward what's happening with generally cyber, with information, you know, operations of different kinds, but also with drones you know, UAVs and then also with, you know, unmanned, you know, unmanned fighter jets, right? Unmanned you know, ships increasingly being built. It'd be, you know, unmanned submarines at some point. If you project this stuff forward, you start to get this very interesting potential world in which basically the way I think about it is like all human conflict between peoples or between nation states up until now has been basically throwing people at each other, right? Throwing soldiers at each other and like letting them make the decision of who to shoot and like hoping they don't get shot, like with very serious repercussions of all those individual human decisions. You do have the prospect of basically a new world of both offense and defense. It's like completely motorized, completely mechanized, completely software driven and technology driven.”
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