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Will Knight

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05.10.2021 08:00 AM

The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons

Drills involving swarms of drones raise questions about whether
machines could outperform a human operator in complex scenarios.

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Last August, several dozen military drones and tanklike robots took
to the skies and roads 40 miles south of Seattle. Their mission: Find
terrorists suspected of hiding among several buildings.

[Will-Knigh]
Will Knight is a senior writer for WIRED, covering artificial
intelligence. He was previously a senior editor at MIT Technology
Review, where he wrote about fundamental advances in AI and China's
AI boom. Before that, he was an editor and writer at New Scientist.
He studied anthropology and journalism in... Read more
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