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U.S. Plans to Expand Drone Fleet: The Pentagon has a $1.8 billion AI budget for 2024.
The United States military aims to field a multitude of autonomous vehicles.
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Jul 27, 2022
AI War Chest Grows: NATO Invests €1 Billion in Advanced Technologies
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced a €1 billion venture capital fund for technologies including AI.
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Ethics Team Scuttles Taser Drone: Axon Cancels Plans to Sell a Taser Drone
A weaponized AI system intended to protect students has been grounded. Axon, which makes law-enforcement equipment such as tasers and body cameras, canceled a plan to sell remote-controlled drones capable of firing electroshock darts.
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Ethics for an Automated Army: Department of Defense issues AI ethics.
The U.S. Department of Defense issued new ethical guidelines for contractors who develop its AI systems. The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, which issues contracts for AI and other high-tech systems, issued guidelines that contractors must follow.
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U.S. AI Strategy In Gear: National Security Commision Influences U.S. Military AI Policy
Recommendations from the National Security Commission on AI were enshrined in over 190 laws in 2021.
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Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?
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Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle
A remote sniper used an automated system to take out a human target located thousands of miles away.What happened: The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad used an AI-assisted rifle in the November killing of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist,
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AI Engineers Weigh In on AI Ethics: Survey Shows How AI Engineers Feel About Ethical Issues
Machine learning researchers tend to trust international organizations, distrust military forces, and disagree on how much disclosure is necessary when describing new models, a new study found.
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Deadly Drones Act Alone: Libya's military may have used AI-powered drones in 2020.
Autonomous weapons are often viewed as an alarming potential consequence of advances in AI — but they may already have been used in combat. Libyan forces unleashed armed drones capable of choosing their own targets against a breakaway rebel faction last year.
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Drones For Defense: How companies like Anduril are developing military drones.
Drone startups are taking aim at military customers. As large tech companies have backed away from defense work, startups like Anduril, Shield AI, and Teal are picking up the slack. They’re developing autonomous fliers specifically for military operations.
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Autonomous Weapons Gain Support: A panel led by Eric Schmidt encouraged more military AI.
A panel of AI experts appointed by the U.S. government came out against a ban on autonomous weapons. A draft report from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence recommends against a proposed international global prohibition of AI-enabled autonomous weapon systems.
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Phantom Menace: Fighter pilot trains against augmented reality jet.
A fighter pilot battled a true-to-life virtual enemy in midair. In the skies over southern California, an airman pitted his dogfighting skills against an AI-controlled opponent that was projected onto his augmented-reality visor.