#military-industrial-complex

#military-industrial-complex

If the phrase "military industrial complex romantic comedy" rings your bells, Hailey Gates' feature directorial debut " Atropia" just might be for you. What if we told you it's also a bit of a satire? And it's based on real events and places? And it stars Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner, whose forbidden romance really blossoms inside the confines of, well, no spoilers here, but a decidedly unsexy space?

"Now, high-quality space systems are mandatory, but they're not relevant if we wait for them to be near-perfect before we put them in the hands of warfighters,"

lethal autonomous weapons, that is weapons that decide by themselves who to kill or maim, are a big advantage if a rich country wants to invade a poor country. The thing that stops rich countries invading poor countries is their citizens coming back in body bags, If you have lethal autonomous weapons, instead of dead people coming back, you'll get dead robots coming back.