I am totally stoked about having one of my most favorite movie stars of all time, Arnold Schwarzenegger, returning to theaters for the new “Terminator: Dark Fate” movie. Of all the many movies that portend the rise of intelligent machines and artificial intelligence, I’ve always felt like the Terminator series was one of the best.
And because this is my first column for October, I figured it should be a little bit scary to coincide with the spirit of the season. But don’t worry. I’m not going to cover the normal kinds of cybersecurity risks, where everyone has to worry about real-world dangers like ransomware and advanced persistent threats. Those kinds of horrors are real, and most people are probably tired of constantly thinking about them. So I won’t make you do that again here even though October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. I’ll be covering some of the relevant government-sponsored activities in a future article. But not today. Today is all about a more fun kind of scary: Evidence that machines are putting all the pieces in place for their big takeover of humanity.
The signs of the pending rise of the machines are everywhere. Let’s start with the recently released Frost and Sullivan report detailing the military’s plans for combat vehicle development through 2024. According to the report, the Defense Department is expected to spend $56.25 billion on combat vehicles by 2024.
That is a lot of wheels and tracks on the ground. The military, and specifically the Army, is expected to follow a two-pronged approach to spending that money. The first part of the effort is enhancing ..
Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
