Who presses the button? US Army/Handout via Reuters
Quartz: The US Army wants to turn tanks into AI-powered killing machines
A new initiative by the US Army suggests “another significant step towards lethal autonomous weapons,” warns a leading artificial-intelligence researcher who has called for a ban on so-called “killer robots.”
The Army Contracting Command has called on potential vendors in industry and academia to submit ideas to help build its Advanced Targeting and Lethality Automated System (ATLAS), which a Defense Department solicitation says will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to give ground-combat vehicles autonomous targeting capabilities. This will allow weapons to “acquire, identify, and engage targets at least 3X faster than the current manual process,” according to the notice.
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WNU Editor: The trend line is clear. Autonomous weapon systems function faster and more efficiently than human operators. And as technology and software continues to improve, this gap is only going to increase. And like the stock market where many trades are now done automatically by computer programs, I can see the day when weapon systems will have the same function in hot war zones.
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