BEIJING – China warned the US on March 11 that the excessive use of artificial intelligence in its military could plunge the world into a “Terminator”-like dystopian future.

US President Donald Trump’s administration has sought the unconditional use of AI start-ups in the military.

The Pentagon has confirmed Mr Elon Musk’s Grok system is cleared for use in a classified setting, and blacklisted Anthropic after it refused to allow its Claude AI model to be used for mass surveillance and autonomous lethal warfare.