Pentagon Directive Warns of AI's 'Increasing Role' in Warfare

..."A world divided: Should we ban AI weapons and autonomous warfare?
Not everyone shares the Pentagon’s rosy outlook towards autonomous weapons. In total, at least 30 countries have already voiced support for banning the tech outright. Those calls even gained the support of UN Secretary-General António Guterres who, in 2019 released a statement saying such systems should be prohibited under international law.

“Autonomous machines with the power and discretion to select targets and take lives without human involvement are politically unacceptable and morally repugnant,” Guterres said.

Similarly, a majority of the 125 states represented in the U.N’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons expressed interest in new laws essentially banning autonomous weapons development during a conference last year. Those efforts failed, CNBC notes, due to opposition from Russia, China, the United States, and a handful of other countries positioned at the forefront of autonomous weapons tech.

Critics of autonomous weapon systems, from Amnesty International to Human Rights Watch, have compared their development to that of nuclear weapons and gunpowder before them. They fear its unchecked expansion could lead to a dangerous arms race that could increase the risk of geopolitical conflict."

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