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No, because that's Terminator territory (ULAWS). Since drones' inception, US military required an officer to approve lethal weapon release until at least 2013 a
by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
No, because that's Terminator territory (ULAWS). Since drones' inception, US military required an officer to approve lethal weapon release until at least 2013 and it may or may not still be required. The official policy is DODD 3000.09, which uses the vague word "appropriate" 22 times, but doesn't allow unsupervised lethal autonomous (ULAWS) yet. Maybe someone knows what the criteria are used around in the world's militaries these days beyond Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy (2023-2024) (which Ukraine signed) (There's a competing REAIM 2023 Call to Action that Ukraine didn't sign with a note.[0])
In other news, New Orleans 911 is using AI to triage localized incident duplication calls from unique emergencies. I'm not saying that it's good or their only practical choice, but it's happening.
The biggest dangers I see are the outsourcing of supervisory control, appeal to authority (when used to summarize content or answer a question), and hallucinated mistakes.
0. (PDF) https://docs-library.unoda.org/General_Assembly_First_Committee_-Eightieth_session_%282025%29/79-239-Ukraine-EN.pdf https://docs-library.unoda.org/General_Assembly_First_Commit...
1. PDRMUAIA https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-arms-control-deterrence-and-stability/political-declaration-on-responsible-military-use-of-artificial-intelligence-and-autonomy https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-arms-control-deterrence-and-...
2. REAIM 2023 Call to Action https://www.government.nl/documents/2023/02/16/reaim-2023-call-to-action https://www.government.nl/documents/2023/02/16/reaim-2023-ca...
3. REAIM 2023 Endorsing Countries and Territories https://www.government.nl/documents/2023/02/16/reaim-2023-endorsing-countries https://www.government.nl/documents/2023/02/16/reaim-2023-en...