You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading.Anduril’s autonomous air vehicle, Fury, which recently began production at the company’s new factory outside Columbus, Ohio.Credit...Kristian Thacker for The New York TimesMutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms RaceChina, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems. The buildup has been compared to the dawn of the nuclear weapo...