People think that Flip Flop- and Hawaiian shirt tech billionaire Palmer Luckey, 32, was crazy when he launched Anduril Industries, a defense product startup.

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been no new company in the defense industry, but Luki has his own vision for it The future of war: An autonomous weapon with automatic, powered weapons and a different business model from the five "main" defense contractors in the United States

"I keep saying we need to go from being a world policeman to a world gun shop," he said.

Who is Palmer Luckey?

Luckey makes his billions of dollars young. He grew up fascinated by electronics and spent a lot of time in his parents' garage in Long Beach, California.

By the age of 19, the patch became the virtual reality company Oculus. Luckey sold it to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, but was fired by Facebook two years later.

"Everyone has a different story, but it comes down to me paying $9,000 to a political group of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton," Luke said. "To be a Trump supporter in 2016 was at the peak of election insanity and danger in Silicon Valley.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who Attend President Trump's recent inaugurationdenied Lu Ge's political views and was fired.

Luckey said in 2017 that he left Silicon Valley with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank and chips on his shoulders.

"My gears are on the ground," he said. "I really want to prove that I am a person, I'm not a miracle of hits, and I still have big things."

Luckey said he considered starting a company to combat obesity or repair the prison system, but eventually decided to break into the defense industry.

"Everyone in the military has seen the 'James Bond' movie, and they all love Q," Luki said. "I'm the weird gadget. I'm the guy who typed on a computer and pushed his glasses away and gave them a weird thing to help them get the task done."

Luki believes it is the future of war

Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman have dominated the defense industry for decades. Often, companies come up with an idea to the Pentagon. If the Pentagon buys it, the government will develop it for the company even if the company is out of budget or exceeds the plan.

Luckey started Anduril to flip this procurement structure out.

"The idea behind Anduril is to build a defense contractor, but a defense product company," he said.

The difference, he explained, is that the contractor can get the job done, whether successful or not.

"A product company has a very different mindset. You are investing your own money. You are in your own time," Luki said.

His vision is to appear effective products, rather than describe how taxpayers pay bills for his developed products.

Luckey believes the lack of innovation in the defense sector means Tesla's AI is better than any American aircraft, and the Roomba Vacuum has better autonomy than most Pentagon's weapon systems. He wanted to change that.

Part of Luckey's philosophy is that autonomous weapons ultimately promote peace by scaring their opponents.

"My position is that the United States needs to arm our allies and partners around the world so that they can be thorny pork that no one wants to trample on, no one wants to bite them," he said.

Luckey does not believe that the United States should send its military to other countries. Instead, products made in the United States should go abroad, he said.

"I think that's one of the reasons why autonomy is so powerful. Now, there are a lot of weapon systems that need Manning," he said. "You know, if I could have one person commanding and controlling 100 aircraft, it would be much easier than having to have a pilot in every aircraft. It's making Americans less and less lives."

"Autism" does not mean remote control; once an automatic weapon is programmed and performs a task, it can use artificial intelligence to monitor or identify, select and participate in the target. No operator is required.

What Anduril is doing

Luckey's approach seems to be working for Anduril. The company said it will receive more than $6 billion in government contracts worldwide by the end of this year. Some Anduril's systems have been used in the U.S. military and Ukrainian wars.

Currently, Anduril is developing Roadrunner: a twin-turbojet drone interceptor that can take off, identify and hit drones. If the target is not found, it can land and try again.

Anduril also made headphones that allow soldiers to see 360 ​​degrees during combat. There is also an electromagnetic warfare system that can be programmed to block enemy systems and remove drone swarms.

Luki said weapons can be synchronized on Anduril's AI platform. The platform collects data from a variety of sensors and sources, including satellites, drones, radars, and cameras, allowing AI to analyze, move assets and perform tasks faster than humans.

"It's all these weapons on AI that can make it so easy," he said.

The largest weapon in Anduril's arsenal is a submarine called the Submersible XL, operating independently. The 60-minute version is the size of the school bus.

"This computer doesn't have a remote control," Luki said. "It's done on the brain, on the submarine itself.

Anduril said the diving XL can completely flood 1,000 miles. Australia has invested $58 million in submarines to help defend its oceans from China.

Anduril's most anticipated weapon, Urgent fighter called angerbecause there are no pilots, no cockpits, sticks or rudders.

"The idea is that you are building a robot fighter, which is flying with a manned warrior, doing what you want to do, recommending things to do, taking risks you don't want human pilots to take," Luki said.

Fury represents a big turning point for the company. Some inside the defense industry see Anduril as a "Tech-Bro" startup until it defeated several major defense contractors to build unmanned fighters for the Air Force.

Fury plans to conduct its first test this summer. If the Pentagon issues Anduril's Fury production contract like all its products, it will be signed in the United States

Ethical Code of Independent Weapons

The UN Secretary-General called deadly autonomous weapons "politically unacceptable and morally disheartening." Some international groups call deadly autonomous weapons a killer robot.

"If I were to argue with them, I would usually poke it," Luki said. "I thought, 'Well, do you think NATO should be equipped with a spray gun or a slingshot?"

Luckey notes that all Anduril's weapons have "kill switches" that can intervene when needed. While some find the idea of ​​automatic weapons frightening, Luki thinks they are not much more horrible than weapons systems without any intelligence.

"There is no moral high altitude to create a school bus that cannot tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor," he said. "It's not a problem between smart weapons and no weapons. It's a problem between smart weapons and stupid weapons."

Like many AI systems, some people are worried about what would happen if an AI rogue was.

“I would say this is worth noting. But, in the grand plan, the things to be afraid of, the things I fear even more. "I'm more worried about the advancement of evil people in technology than the decision of AI to eliminate us all," Luki said. ”