Engadget reports that “it took a while for the US military to bolster its defenses against cyberattacks, and it looks like there’s a similar deficit when it comes to artificial intelligence. A new Defense Department report says that the country needs to take “immediate action” to speed up its development of AI war technology. Academic and private research on AI and autonomous tech is well ahead of American forces, the study says. There’s a real chance that we could see a repeat of what happened in cyberwarfare, where the US was focused so heavily on launching attacks that it left itself off-guard.”

“Naturally, the board already has some advice. It recommends that the Pentagon gather more intelligence on other nations’ AI capabilities, and develop “counter-autonomy” solutions. The military could deceive or overwhelm autonomous war machines, for example. Also, the writers suggest that the US pour many more resources into developing and testing learning AI, such as weapons that adapt to battlefield conditions.”