Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – China’s development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to run space platforms and satellites is going to be “a real game changer” in terms of operating military capabilities in space, US Space Force Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Lisa Costas said.
“This is going to be a real game changer in terms of implementing artificial intelligence in operational space,” Costas said in a podcast on Wednesday.
China has spent $14.7 billion on AI this year and that figure is projected to almost double to $26 billion by 2026, Costas said.
China has in recent years put more than 700 satellites into space, by April this year of which more than 160 were intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance satellites, Costas added.
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