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Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Rob Young.

War is more high-tech than ever, and it's becoming even more so.

Artificial intelligence companies are making software which is increasingly being used on

the battlefield. The way defence is using our software is to connect up all these drones, ground robotic

systems, sensors, all this growing mass of tech that defence needs to join up. Today we're

meeting a soldier turned entrepreneur who's making AI systems for the military.

Well, only for those defending democracies.

We exist as a company to make sure that the democratic countries who share our values,

have the tools they need to keep our society's safe.

Business Daily meets Will Blythe, the co-founder and chief executive of Arundite.

As we were hearing on yesterday's program, unmanned aerial vehicles, drones, have transformed modern warfare.

The technology was relatively new when our guest

today, Will Blythe from the UK, began his military career. Well, I grew up in a middle class

family. It was very lucky and lived in the suburbs north of London. And for some reason, I got it

in my head as a child that the army was going to be the thing

I wanted to do and I think there was some point as a kid where you know maybe it would have

been if it wasn't going to be the army it would have been being a doctor or something somehow

these had some equivalence of linked to public service and the desire to try to to do something

to give back to society early on.

So by the time I was heading to university,

hopefully had a bit more of a sophisticated view of what that would involve.

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