Eric Schmidt

They say, well, you have this many, and I have this many, and you can do this kind of maneuver and so forth.

but in an ai world where you're doing reinforcement learning you can't count what the other side is planning you can't see it you don't know it and i believe that that will deter what i view is one of the most horrendous things ever done by humans which is war because unless there's a perfect balance between either side there will be some mutual destruction of the drone supply like there would be with any artillery stock and traditional warfare and whoever's left ends up winning like they're just

Well, it's very important to understand that there's no winners in war.

By the time you have a drone battle of the scale I'm describing, the entire infrastructure of your side will be destroyed, the entire infrastructure of the other side will be destroyed.

These are lose-lose scenarios.

Well, I'm arguing that it's not a detente, it's a deterrence.

That as deterrence can be understood as I want to hit you, which I don't, but I want to hit you so much, but that if I do that,

the penalty is greater than the value of me hitting you.

And that's how to transform.

Well, there are many advantages to moving to drones and automation.

One, they're much, much cheaper.

They're much, much cheaper.

And two, you can stockpile algorithms.

You can essentially learn and learn and learn.

And remember, you can also build training data that's synthetic, so you could be even better than the others.

The final question I've been asked by our military is, what's the role of a traditional land army?

And I wish I could say that all of these human behaviors can occur without humans being at risk.

I don't think so.

I think that the way robot war, essentially drone war will occur is there will be these destructive waves

but eventually humans are going to have to cross a line.