“What if you could make a drone botnet? You just give it a task and it operates autonomously and does it.”

“That would be so cool!”

Last month, I was having lunch with an awesome founder I invested in. His company had recently been acquired, and we were kicking around ideas for his next startup.

Today, most drones are glorified versions of the radio controlled airplanes of yore. A pilot tells each one where to go and what to do.

Here’s how it could work instead…

Monday, 1500 hours:

• General issues a command to the Botnet: “Destroy the air defenses of Russia’s 1st Guards Tank Army.”
  
• Botnet searches the internet for information about the unit: last known location, coat of arms, typical vehicles, etc.

1557:

• Thousands of surveillance drones disperse across the territory, looking for the unit.

2340:

• Unit located. Most drones return to base, a few stay to monitor the unit’s location.

2357:

• Botnet creates a battleplan.

2358:

• Attack drones launched. These are larger and contain Hellfire missiles.

Tuesday, 0200 hours:

• A Russian sentry is jolted awake. Everything around him is exploding at once.

0215:

• The Russian unit’s radar systems and antiaircraft weapons are completely destroyed.

0225:

• Surveillance drones verify mission success, report back to Botnet HQ.

0230:

• Botnet notifies Command: “The air defenses of Russia’s 1st Guards Tank Army have been neutralized. Ready for full air assault.”

0245:

• F-22’s leave airbase, crewed by human pilots and bound for the Russians. Time to finish the job.

This future is nowhere near as far-out as it sounds.

AI systems that can take a high-level prompt and iterate on it to reach a solution already exist. AgentGPT is but one example.

Drones are already common and widely used in combat.

All we need to do is marry the two.

I’m excited to invest in companies pursuing this vision. One thing I can’t stand is rich people in tech benefiting from America and refusing to have anything to do with defending it.

What do you think the future holds for defense tech? Leave a comment and let us know!

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