Look for AI-driven chatbots to go rogue, a substantial increase in crimeware-as-a-service, acceleration of the weaponization of data, a resurgence in ransomware and a significant increase in nation-stage cyberattacks.
Yet as it turns out nothing in the Outer Space Treaty actually forbids the weaponization of space, meaning that so long as we don't use nukes up there, any form of extraterrestrial brutality is on the table.
Haley's talk came directly after a panel on the weaponization of medical care in Syria, in which two doctors asked those in the audience to start caring about Syrian doctors, civilians and refugees.
As the third revolution in warfare emerges after gunpowder and nuclear weapons—experts and campaigners fear that the weaponization of artificial intelligence, and the drive to develop lethal autonomous weapons systems (Laws), could bring the world closer to such a state than ever before.
He said the American assessment had also shown that past international pressure on Iran had succeeded "in that they seem to have abandoned the weaponization element".
The costs of the weaponization of digital information in markets such as Myanmar looks incalculable.
In a United Nations draft resolution put forward by the Russian Federation and China in October 2014, member states were asked to vote against the weaponization of space and the "threat or use of force against outer space objects," stressing an urgency to prevent an outer space arms race.
"Think about places where they're trying to get you in and out as quickly as possible," said John Mayberry, an acoustical engineer in San Marino, Calif., who has railed against what he terms the "weaponization" of audio.
The weaponization of code is the biggest development in warfare since the invention of the atomic bomb.
He also says that "the weaponization of code is the biggest development in warfare since the invention of the atomic bomb".
