Superweapons

Sci-fi movies are full of superweapons like battle stations that can destroy entire planets. The fact is that all possible interstellar spacecraft are weapons. If the operator shoots the 10,000-kilogram device against the planet by using a speed that is about 70% of the speed of light, that thing destroys the entire planet in less than a second. 

But there is a paradox in those things. Civilization requires things like death stars and other kinds of stuff. Those weapons could protect the planets and solar systems against incoming asteroids and rogue planets. If we think about the Star Wars movies the only thing that is needed to destroy the planet is to drive one X-wing or fighter to impact the planet at a very high speed. The other version is to drive the X-wing to the planet's atmosphere at a very high speed in that case, the friction will cause devastating effects. 

And that thing causes the air turns to plasma. In some conventional visions, the hypersonic aircraft would fly low over enemy positions. In that case, the air cone will turn devastating because air is packed into the extremely hard cone. That pressure cone is one of the problems of hypersonic technology. 

The antimatter weapon or Teller's bomb is one version of superweapons. 

The thing is that humans can easily create superweapons like Teller's bombs. Those bombs are antimaterial capsules antiprotons or positrons hover in the magnetic field that isolates them from the shell of the chamber. If the magnetic field is removed or the material can interact with antimatter, that causes an extremely powerful explosion. And there is a calculation that less than a gram of antimatter is needed to destroy the entire Earth. 

Maybe we can say that drone swarms are super weapons. We can imagine a situation where thousands of drones will transfer to the operational area. And then the microwave systems in those drones start to heat air below them. 

Things like quantum computers are also weapons. The quantum computer can take thousands or even millions of regular computers under its control. Then the quantum system orders that networked computer entirety to bomb the targets by using echo-request commands. And that thing can turn those targeted systems unable to operate. 

AI is the next-generation version of a super weapon. It can affect things like robots. The AI-controlled combat robots are the tools of the next-generation battlefield. And one of the threats is the independently operating killer robots that get into the wrong hands.  The AI can control laboratories and operate with things like artificial DNA or nanomachines. 

Or the AI can make things. Like DDoS attacks against targeted servers and locking the control systems. That kind of vision causes the need to determine some AI solutions as weapons. AI requires control. But we must be sure that the West will stay ahead of this kind of research and benefit from the positive sides of that technology. And at the same time, we must realize the risks of those systems. 

The data- or cyber attacks can be dangerous. If there is suspicion that some jet-fighter or weapon systems are involving data viruses that thing causes need to check the system. Even if operators can change the computer programs in minutes. Those critical minutes are away from the reaction time. And supersonic aircraft travel a long distance in one minute. If those computer programs are not working the smart weapons cannot make their mission. The paradox is that smart weapons are more effective than dummy weapons if they work as they should. 

And one target for a cyber attack can be those weapons. Even if those attacks are not successful that thing causes uncertain situation. If computer viruses are effective that thing makes those weapons malfunction. So the crew must check the computer programs. And that causes extra work in a very stressful situation. Or the commander must take the risk, that they send malfunctioning weapons in operations. 

The Chat GPT or its militarized versions can create algorithms that can slip into the systems and corrupt at least their databases. The thing is that AI is one of the most powerful tools in the world. The AI can use to create algorithms that can take the computers under control. The AI is the perfect attacker in the computer world. It can make attacks non-stop 24/7 and the AI will never be tired. The AI can create algorithms that it slips into other computers. And that thing makes it possible that the AI can hide the identity of the original attacker. 

It transfers the attack code to another system. There the AI makes the attack, and that complicated algorithm detects if something is interesting in other target systems. Then the AI can simply create the E-mail and send that report to the receiver. Maybe the system corrupts the spam server that sends marketing stuff for leads. And then it sends the report about the targeted system. Then it can remove that message from the spam server. If AI rides with a spam server. That thing makes it harder to detect the system that receives data. 

In some visions, AI-based systems can hack even the human brain. The neural link microchips can implant in the victim's head. And then those systems can force the person to work in weapon research. The thing is that the BCI (Brain-computer Interface) is one of the most powerful tools that the researchers ever created. But if hackers can attack the BCI that thing causes a situation where they can control the users of that kind of system.