A bill in Congress would effectively ban DJI drones in the US| Public safety agencies that rely on them say it will cost lives.
Envision a scenario in which hundreds, even thousands of the machines engage in coordinated battle above the heads of soldiers. That could be reality soon.WASHINGTON — As their rivalry intensifies, U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial intelligence work together like a swarm of bees to overwhelm an enemy.
The unchecked spread of swarm technology"could lead to more instability and conflict around the world,” said Margarita Konaev, an analyst with Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. It's not clear how many drones a single person would control. A spokesman for the defense secretary declined to say, but a recently published offers a clue: A single operator supervised a swarm of more than 100 cheap air and land drones in late 2021 in an Not to be outdone, China’s military claimed last year that dozens of aerial drones “self-healed” after jamming cut their communications.
If the U.S. is"going full speed ahead, it’s most likely China will accelerate whatever it’s doing,” Hartung said.
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