US navy plan to create big autonomous drone swarms sparks concern

The AMASS mission would contain hundreds of drones, on the bottom, within the air and within the water, working collectively in a “swarm of swarms” to overwhelm enemy defences

By David Hambling

A brand new Pentagon mission envisages automated, coordinated assaults by swarms of many sorts of drones that function within the air, on the bottom and within the water. The thought is elevating issues about whether or not human oversight of such a “swarm of swarms” could be potential.

The Autonomous Multi-Area Adaptive Swarms-of-Swarms (AMASS) is a mission from US defence analysis company DARPA. Most particulars are categorized, however …