Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt According to some sources, the company is secretly building a kamikaze drone startup called “White Stork” in the United States and Ukraine. report According to Forbes magazine on Tuesday. The project is named after Ukraine’s national bird, and Stork hopes to sell its advanced AI drone technology to the country’s ongoing war effort.
Since leaving Google, Schmidt has become a bridge between Silicon Valley and the Department of Defense. He heads the National Security Committee on Artificial Intelligence, which issued the following statement: final report In 2021, he said, “AI will change the way wars are fought in all areas.”
Now, Schmidt appears to be putting that vision to use with a company making money with AI suicide drones, branded directly for Ukraine. The former CEO of Google has written extensively about how AI drones are the future of warfare. Book He co-wrote it with everyone’s favorite warmonger, who recently passed away. henry kissinger. It is clear now that he was just talking about the stork.
kamikaze drone costs about $400 Schmidt carried a small amount of explosives, according to a column he wrote in the Wall Street Journal in July. That’s a pittance compared to the Pentagon’s staggering budget. Later in that column, Schmidt said suicide attack drones were the “most important” new technology key to defeating Russia and its future adversaries. At the same time, the U.S. government Decrease in transactions with traditional arms dealers Like Palantir.
Former Google CEO column Monday’s title is “Ukraine is losing the drone war.” Schmidt details how he has been in close contact with Ukrainian officials and how poorly Western weapons have performed against Russian defense systems. He also notes that Ukraine plans to purchase more than 1 million drones from allies in 2024, which is a good thing for Ukraine.
Mr. Schmidt has augmented White Stork under a series of shell companies, according to Forbes.One of them is named Volya Robotics OÜ, which lists Mr. Schmidt as a beneficiary and an employee of his family office as the sole board member.What about the stork? Hire several former technology executivesand Sebastian Thrun, co-founder of Google’s Moonshot Lab.
The AI revolution in warfare is not unfounded, and suicide drone technology could play a larger role in future wars.viral video of Drone exploding chasing soldiers Published in X this week. These drones use a lot of AI to pinpoint targets and evade defense systems. This could mean an increased presence of AI companies in future wars, which could contradict the near-unanimous claims about “.benefit humanity.”