I am sure everyone has it. Every major nations. Although they might not use it.
> AI
I am sure it is already there. Many have it. Turkey, and at least China. Maybe Israel and the US.
And it will not come in clear paradigms, I think. Like FSD in Tesla. Use will happen for components first, then major things, then maybe one day, fully autonomous.
How do you even regulize it? What happens if they use Logistic Regression? That's just Stat, right? What if add one more layer? Then that becomes MLP, and in the AI domain. What about CNNs? Transformers? Where do you draw the line?
What if the missile truck uses something like FSD?
> arms race
This isn't going to be like other arms races. This will fundamentally change all weapons. And should not be used where it is not needed, though.
Also, gone are the days when countries flaunted big missiles. How would even other countries know, if you don't want them to?
Name a major state that has experienced existential war since their invention. Same for nukes.
"We've been successful in stopping" - there has been no "we" doing any "stopping". There have only been "others" "choosing not to". There would reasonably be some point of conflict where the decision falls the other way.
Or do you mean those dogs they were building for the military?
Mission accomplished.
This is then followed by (or was embedded in?) a recorded presentation on stage with showroom dummies, where every single necessary step to achieve this goal is shown to be possible with COTS (commercial of the shelf) components today.
That was new then, a few years ago...