US military has been using AI for quite some time for ISR - scanning satellite data and detecting targets of interest, especially Navy.<p>What will be new AI development - is "self-driving" anti-personnel/anti-materiel drones.<p>Current capabilities are already pretty close to "self-driving" - for example HARM missiles that home in on AA radar.<p>and the next frontier will be autonomous robots conducting combat missions automatically<p>the sole reason why US protects Taiwan for its microchips is because they can be used in military AI. Not because iPhones or smart fridges will lose microchip supplier.<p>At scale these chips will pave the way for autonomous smart combat platforms in any domain.