It is only today that artificial intelligence has begun to receive a high degree of attention in the field of military applications for the better. Throughout human military history, we find that there is often a time lag between new technological breakthroughs and military applications, which is mainly subject to the maturity of scientific and technological innovation and the acceptance of the application object, and the same is true of artificial intelligence technology.

In recent years, intelligent weapon systems represented by military drones have gained significant development, and are increasingly becoming an important force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. Many people still remember that in April 2015, a U.S. Army X-47B verification aircraft met with a K-707 refueling plane and successfully completed an autonomous aerial refueling, creating a new era in which unmanned aircraft autonomously realize aerial refueling.

The world's first programmable "Giant" computer was born in the United Kingdom during World War II, and its purpose was to help the British army decipher German codes. Since then, the development and application of information technology has led to revolutionary changes in the military field.

Currently, the world is in the eve of the intelligence revolution, and human society is moving from the era of "Internet+" to the era of "Intelligence+". In recent years, driven by big data, new algorithms and supercomputing, artificial intelligence is changing and even subverting every industry it touches, and war is no exception. Artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence, AI) technology has now entered a new period of rapid growth, is recognized as the most likely to change the future of the world's disruptive technology. The emergence of artificial intelligence weapons will fundamentally change the way of war, i.e., from "man to man" war into "machine autonomous killing" war.

Artificial intelligence was first used in the military, mainly to carry out some dangerous tasks, such as mine clearance, deep behind enemy lines to carry out reconnaissance missions. In order to ensure the safety of soldiers, the armies of many developed countries now use AI robots in combination with sappers to sweep mines. This greatly reduces the chance of sappers being killed by accidentally touching mines in the process of mine clearing. In fact, artificial intelligence is currently used more for drone technology, and drones mainly carry out the tasks of reconnaissance and attack behind enemy lines. Reconnaissance through drones is not easily detected and shot down by utilizing the tiny size of drones. Even if they are shot down, the drones are able to feed information back to headquarters through devices on the aircraft before they are destroyed.

Of course, the utilization of artificial intelligence in the military is not only these. The United States as the representative of the world's military powers, foreseeing the broad prospects for the application of artificial intelligence technology in the military field, that the future arms race is the race of intelligence, and has laid out a series of research programs in advance, the release of the "third offset strategy", and strive to pull away from the generation gap with potential rivals in the intelligence. As the U.S. Pentagon's plan to apply artificial intelligence to the military is taking shape, Chinese researchers are also in full swing to explore this emerging technology.

China has begun developing a cruise missile system with "high levels" of artificial intelligence. The missile is called the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, or LRASM, and is described as a "semi-automatic" weapon, meaning that while the target of attack is selected by the soldier, the missile uses artificial intelligence to avoid defenses and make the final decision on where to strike.