Since 1945, our nuclear weapons have made us invulnerable. Those days are over.

Chinese companies are well ahead of us in robotics. Soon, they will turn these technologies to military uses.

Unitree recently demoed an android that can run fast on hills, gravel, or stairs. It will cost just $16,000.

Robot dogs on wheels from DEEP Robotics can speed through snow, streams, and rocks. Massive numbers of drones can descend on a city and surround it.

Today, none of these robots have weapons attached. Soon, they will.

Imagine a conflict with China in 5 years.

They shut down our 911 and water systems with hacking. 100 million drones descend on all our major cities, dropping bombs. 10 million robot soldiers storm the coasts.

I’m not trying to be an alarmist here. But given the incredible speed at which China is advancing in robotics, is this really that far fetched?

All these robots will be powered by AI and Large Vision Models. They’ll simply be given a goal (“destroy the 3rd Infantry”) and will act autonomously to do it.

No one mass produces like China. Even if we manage to field some capable robots, China may massively outproduce us and still win.

Our fail-safe is a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons. But if we launch ours in self-defense, they will launch theirs.

In this scenario, we would face 2 choices:

1) Total destruction of America and much of the world in a nuclear war.
2) Surrender to China to try to save lives.

As awful as it would be, we would pick #2.

The only way to prevent this scenario is to catch up with and surpass China’s advances in robotics.

We must have better robots than China. Even more importantly, we must be able to produce them at incredible scale.

Slow defense procurement and cockamamie environmental regulations cannot hold us back. We have to build these weapons as fast as humanly possible.

I’m encouraged to see moves like the Arsenal-1 plant from Anduril and the $500 billion Stargate plan to build out AI data centers. We need a lot more rapid, bold action like this.

Angel Jason Calacanis put it well on a recent episode of This Week in Startups:

“This is now the race for the nuclear bomb, all right. This is the Manhattan Project.”

We did it once. We can do it again.

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