Palmer Luckey

I'm less focused on the superhuman, superintelligent side of things and more, hey, this AI that's running my autonomous helicopter

Is he about as good as a pretty good helicopter pilot?

Okay, that means that I can have one soldier managing a fleet of 25 airframes himself and just telling them, hey, I need you to clear this area.

I need you to find this target I'm looking for.

I need you to fly ahead of my convoy and watch for anything.

Now he doesn't need 25 pilots and 25 helicopters to do that.

That's what I'm most excited about.

And it's really important in a world

where I think quantity is gonna have a quality all of its own in these types of weapon systems.

The best way to defeat a lot of our adversaries' defenses is not through building a small number of exquisite systems, but quantities that are so large that they can't possibly stop them.

And it's especially important in a world where militaries are struggling to recruit.

They're trying to be more cost effective.

They're trying to put less money into salaries and disability payments and more into systems that are going to be fighting the adversary directly, robotic systems.

For example, the United Kingdom has said that they want to, over the next few years, reduce the size of their Navy by 30%, 30% personnel reduction.

And because of that, they're doing things like dedicating one of their two aircraft carriers to being an autonomous aircraft launch system.

In other words, they want one of their carriers to only launch autonomous systems.

You don't have to have huge numbers of people to run and maintain these traditional manned systems.

If that's the world we're going to live in, where we need to ramp up the number of systems, but also ramp down the number of people, the only thing that can fill the gap is automation.

I can tell you what the answer is.

It's the same one.