The BBC News Agency reports that Ukraine has become a testing ground for the warfare of robots and artificial intelligence.
A British-Ukrainian arms company has told the BBC that in the future, the number of robots on the battlefield may exceed the number of human forces, a trend that analysts say the Ukraine war has accelerated significantly.
These statements were made after Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, announced that a part of the country’s territory was reclaimed from Russian forces for the first time using only ground robots and drones.
The company UFORCE, one of the startups active in the field of robotic weaponry, says that since the start of the war in 2022, it has conducted more than 150,000 successful combat missions, and its unmanned systems are currently used in air, ground, and sea operations.
Experts say the Ukraine war has turned into a laboratory for the development of a new generation of weapons equipped with artificial intelligence, developments that could change the nature of future wars.
On the other hand, human rights groups have warned that increasing the role of artificial intelligence in military decision-making poses serious ethical and human rights risks, and delegating life-and-death decisions to machines could have dangerous consequences.