Palmer Luckey Is Getting Into the Cybernetically Outfitted Super Soldier Dog Market
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Weaponized, AI-equipped dogs are another step in the diffusion of autonomy into small, semi-disposable platforms — lower cost, higher deployment volume, harder oversight. Defense and security operators need to think in terms of swarms and counter-autonomy, not just big-ticket systems.
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