Horowitz: Autonomous weapons will be essential in communication-denied conflicts
Michael Horowitz · Pentagon Insider: What's Next For Anthropic and The Department of War — With Michael Horowitz · Mar 6, 2026 · at 44:09
Former Pentagon official Michael Horowitz discusses how autonomous weapons and AI will become indispensable if military satellite communications are disabled in a conflict with China.
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“And in what the military would call a degraded or denied communication environment, something like an autonomous weapon system will be essential. For all the, for lots of different kinds of weapons to be able to operate, and, you know, algorithm, algorithmic operational planning to help commanders, that may be part of the way that a military like the United States can still compete and win in the worst case kind of scenario.”
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