Army of None

Bill Gates’s favorite book of 2018. An Amazon Top Ten Book of the Year. A Pentagon defense expert and former U. S. Army Ranger explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death. What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Or when a weapon that can hunt its own targets is hacked? Although it sounds like science fiction, the technology already exists to create weapons that can attack targets without human input. Scharre, who spent years researching military technology, draws on deep research and firsthand experience to explore how these next-generation weapons are changing warfare and what it means for humanity’s future in this important new book.