Close Encounters of the Third Millennium
... individual countries, primarily by the United States and China. Most conference participants agreed that incidents with the autonomous systems could provoke conflicts between great powers in East Asia. Possible scenarios could include collisions of unmanned vehicles, the loss of control over them, and even theft of an enemy drone. Such incidents are most likely in the South ... ... United States has traditionally maintained a large-scale presence in the region. Maksim Karliuk: The Ethical and Legal Issues of Artificial Intelligence Drone-related incidents in the South China Sea are not purely theoretical, as there are recent precedents....