Flash Wars: Autonomous Weapons, AI & The Future Of Armed Conflict

Flash Wars dives into the disturbing world of autonomous weapons and why it’s so hard to teach morality to an AI. We follow an ex-hacker Alberto Pelliccione into a secret world of spy software, military contractors and cyberweapons sold by European companies to authoritarian regimes. First, there was the invention of gunpowder, then the atomic bomb. Now we find ourselves at the threshold of another dramatic escalation in the field of armed conflict. So dramatic, in fact, that observers fear that AI-driven conflicts could escalate so quickly, that human actors will not be able to react in time.

As Vladimir Putin stated in 2017, “Whoever leads in AI, rules the world.”