This Defense Company Made AI Agents That Blow Things Up
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyLike many Silicon Valley companies today, Scout AI is training large AI models and agents to automate chores. The big difference is that instead of writing code, answering emails, or buying stuff online, Scout AI’s agents are designed to seek and destroy things in the physical world with exploding drones.In a recent demonstration, held at an undisclosed military base in central California, Scout AI’s technology was put in charge of a self-driving off-road vehicle and a pair of lethal drones. The agents used these systems to find a truck hiding in the area, and then blew it to bits using an explosive charge.“We need to bring next-generation AI to the military,” Colby Adcock, Scout AI’s CEO, told me in a…
