“Ripped out of the pages of science fiction novels, artificially intelligent, self-aware weapons systems could become a global existential threat, if harbingers of doom like Elon Musk are to be believed. What I’m more worried about is combining artificial intelligence with a weapon that is already hurting us, and our democracy: the weaponization of information.”
Source: Could AI-Driven Info Warfare Be Democracy’s Achilles Heel?