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18 plus gamblerware.org. It's Wednesday, the 1st of July.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

And this afternoon, we're continuing our series of special intelligence briefings, taking just a slight break from the daily news headlines to look at the bigger picture, the geopolitical concerns,

national security issues, and global developments impacting the world.

Today's topic is one that's generated no shortage of headlines or speculation or wealth or hype over the

past several years. We're talking artificial intelligence. Now, for most people, the term conjures

up images of chatbots or image generators, self-driving cars, or maybe Silicon Valley entrepreneurs

promising to transform the world. But while much of the

public conversation has focused on commercial applications, military planners and intelligence

agencies around the globe have been paying attention to something else entirely. They're asking

a much different question. How will artificial intelligence change the way that nations

shape the battlefields of tomorrow, fight wars, gather intelligence, and strive for global domination?

And we ask, is that future still years away, or has it already arrived? The answer, increasingly,

appears to be that the future is now. Because despite

all the futuristic language surrounding artificial intelligence, the reality is that AI is already

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