Good morning from the Financial Times.

Today is Friday, November 28th, and this is your FT News Briefing.

I'm Mark Filipino, and we're doing something a little different today.

We're devoting our whole episode to a very tricky topic, artificial intelligence and warfare.

How big of an impact it's going to have, what the guardrail should be.

I'm going to hand it over to FT investigative reporter Helen Warrell, who recently wrote

about this. Here's Helen.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to disrupt almost every industry we work in,

from manufacturing to stock trading. Defense is no

exception, and at a time of rising global conflict, the question of how different militaries

are using AI is increasingly important. As part of an FT collaboration with the MIT Technology Review,

we're going to be debating the ethical, political, and practical questions

around AI warfare. I'm joined by James O'Donnell, who's a senior reporter at the MIT

Technology Review covering AI. Hi, James. Thanks for joining us. Hi, thanks for having me.

Before we get into the sort of future applications of the technology, I think we should

start off with giving listeners an overview of what's actually happening right now in the world of

defence AI. Can you give us a sense of where AI is being used and what sort of capabilities it has?

Yeah, I think there's a scale here.

I think there are startups and defense companies using AI for a number of different areas.

So one of them is about logistics and planning.

So figuring out how to move things around the world, how to make military logistics more efficient.

There's also efforts to use AI and cyber warfare, both on the sort of offensive, so in

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