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Despite the disturbing warnings detailed in last week’s Unknown Country Weekender, which warned of the potential dangers posed to mankind from Artificial Intelligence (AI), further news of our continued but highly questionable faith in this form of technology has emerged.

In a recent article in the New York Times, a form of particularly chilling AI is described: it appears that man in his wisdom has now devolved the responsibility of whom to kill down to so-called "intelligent" bombs. The article reveals that last year, an Air Force B-1 bomber tested a new missile off the coast of Southern California, but this was a missile with a difference.
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Space-based missile defenses systems could produce dangerous space debris that would make low-Earth orbits permanently unusable, according to Joel Primack of the University of California at Santa Cruz. The orbiting anti-missile battle stations proposed by the U.S. could result in so much space junk that other satellites wouldn?t have room to operate.

Most critics of the U.S. military’s missile defense program focus on the imperfect trial results of their ground-based interceptors, which have destroyed dummy warheads in four out of six trials. But in tests, neither the target or the interceptor reach orbital velocity, so most of the debris they produce falls to the ground.
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