Good morning from the Financial Times.
Today is Friday, November 28th, and this is your FT News Briefing.
I'm Mark Filipino, and we're doing something a little different today.
We're devoting our whole episode to a very tricky topic, artificial intelligence and warfare.
How big of an impact it's going to have and what the guardrail should be.
I'm going to hand it over to FT investigative reporter Helen Warrell, who recently wrote about this.
Here's Helen.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to disrupt almost every industry we work in from manufacturing to stock trading.
Defence is no exception, and at a time of rising global conflict,
the question of how different militaries are using AI is increasingly important.
As part of an FT collaboration with the MIT Technology Review,
we're going to be debating the ethical, political and practical questions around AI warfare.
I'm joined by James O'Donnell, who's a senior reporter at the MIT Technology Review, covering AI.
Hi, James.
Thanks for joining us.
Hi.
Thanks for having me.
Before we get into the future applications of the technology,
I think we should start off with giving listeners an overview of what's actually happening right now in the world of defense AI.
Can you give us a sense of where AI is being used and what capabilities it has?