Humanoid robots fighting wars may be a far fetched dream (or nightmare) as of now, but the use of AI in the military might make that happen real soon. The US Military is developing an AI system to improve military planning and conduct operations with ease. The system is known as the Aided Threat Recognition from Mobile Cooperative and Autonomous Sensors (ATR-MCAS). This is an AI-enabled decision support agent that can recommend responses to the soldiers based on the threat.
The ATR-MCAS is still in its last stages of development and will take some more time to be operational. The Army is still training the algorithms on test data to improve the system to better identify and classify objects and threats.
The way the army is envisioning the system, it can lead to the concept of augmented intelligence. It is a more human-centred vision of AI deployments that may lead to deployment of killer robots in the battlefield.
