The inevitable war with China

The problem is those types of systems are easy to fool. There was actually an experiment done with a gun targeted by an AI where US Marines were given the job of getting past it. Each group of Marines succeeded. For example, one of them covered themselves with big boxes Metal Gear-style and walked past. The AI had no idea a box walking past probably contained a human.

 

We already have these. They are called cops.

 

This is still in the rumor stage, and given some of the facts it might stay that way forever for we mere citizens, but the details are really convincing.

In short, a hacker group called "FlamingChina" claims to have stolen 10 petabytes (10,000 terabytes) of data from the China National Supercomputing Center and is making it available for purchase. This is the most secret information China has - simulation data on things like the aerodynamics and radar cross sections of their newest fighters, hull and sound dynamics of their submarines, tactics against Western weapons - everything China's military ever needed a supercomputer for. There's supposedly lots of civilian stuff too, such as deep information on China's semiconductor industry and their C919 airliner.

https://www.visiontimes.com/2026/03...uting-hub-stealing-10pb-of-military-data.html

There's a flurry of interest on Twitter. It hasn't hit the mainstream press, and it might not as it's unconfirmable and probably something the US government doesn't want broadcast either. It's only on edge China-watch and hacker-watch sites at the moment.

If this is true, the behavior of the scientists at the China National Supercomputing Center is shocking. Access to the world-leading supercomputers was done through terminals running Windows 7. Accounts and passwords were shared freely among people working on vastly different projects. Just moving 10 petabytes of data should have triggered all the alarms.

And who knows what other nation's data is there, either through data sharing agreements or things like China's reverse-engineering other nation's hardware.