Elon Musk wants to replace human fighter pilots with AI drones. That would be a disaster

Autonomous AI drones aren’t ready for prime-time combat. And the world isn’t ready for them, either.

In 2017, Elon Musk told the world he was certain that artificial intelligence would lead us to World War III. His viral comments evoked visions of Terminators’s feet crushing a pile skulls and robotic airplanes hunting down humans. Now, however, it appears Musk has changed his mind.