2024-02-13
24 分钟The Economist. It's Monday, February 12, 2024.
This is Editor's Picks, where we'll bring you three highlights from The Economist,
read aloud, exclusively for subscribers.
I'm Aura Ogunbiyi.
You'll normally find me co-hosting The Intelligence, our daily podcast.
The Economist has two cover stories this week.
In most of the world, we look at how drones are transforming warfare.
First-person view, or FPV drones,
have achieved near-mythical status in the war in Ukraine.
Both Russia and Ukraine are using them more and more,
because they're cheap, fast and precise weapons.
Innovation is happening fast on the frontlines.
FPV drones are already being enhanced by artificial intelligence.
As the drones continue to multiply, self-coordinating swarms will become possible.
Our cover story argues that humans will struggle to monitor and to understand drones' engagements,
let alone authorize them in the future.
America and its allies must prepare.
Our cover story in America and Asia, meanwhile, turns to China,
where the stock market has been on an alarming ride so far this year.
In January,