Deadly US Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Expand In the United States and around the world, public concern is rising at the prospect of weapons systems that would select and attack targets without human intervention. © 2018 Campaign to Stop Killer Robots As the United States Department of Defense releases a strategy on artificial intelligence (AI), questions loom about whether the US government intends to accelerate its investments in weapons systems that would select and engage targets without meaningful human control. The strategy considers a range of potential, mostly benign uses of AI and makes the bold claim that AI can help…

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