Kevin McCaney

Artificial intelligence is at the core of what’s being called both the new space race and the new arms race, pitting global powers against each other to determine the ruler of the world. But while countries engage and posture, AI will soon give anyone the equivalent of a digital nuke.

The next thing in biometric authentication could be a new version of something already familiar to web users — Captcha, the tried, true and too often maddening method of convincing a site you’re not a bot by typing in distorted letters and numbers on the screen.

The Pentagon plans to take artificial intelligence to the next level, particularly with regard to analyzing the millions of hours of video collected by unmanned aerial aircraft and other sensors in Iraq and Syria.