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Inside Africa's AI War Games with Shane Smith (2026x5)

Uitzenddatum: Mei 06, 2026

In January last year, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told the US military to "accelerate like hell" in the use of AI, robots, & autonomous systems. Now, just over 100 days later, we're on the ground in Morocco, where AI-powered "robotic forces" are working alongside human soldiers as part of African Lion, the US military's largest exercise on the African continent.