U.S. Military Admits for First Time That China Is Selling Lethal Autonomous Drones

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper called working with China on A.I. ‘a short and narrow-sighted focus on economic opportunity’

Dave Gershgorn
OneZero
Published in
3 min readNov 5, 2019

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

UU.S. Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper spoke out against China’s sale of highly autonomous drones on the…

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Dave Gershgorn
OneZero

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.