> Autonomous weapons are ideal for tasks such as assassinations, destabilizing nations, subduing populations and selectively killing a particular ethnic group.

> Autonomous weapons are ideal for tasks such as assassinations, destabilizing nations, subduing populations and selectively killing a particular ethnic group. Is it just me or does this read like an advertisement? The race for AI-supported weaponry has been on for a long time. Rosenblatt was using perceptrons to try and identify tanks in the late 50s. So this is not a race whose start is to be forestalled, as the letter phrases it, since it began a long time ago. AI has been weaponized. I think the caution FLI expresses towards autonomous weapons is fair, but let's be really clear on where we are. Various forms of weak and narrow AI have been applied to warfare for a long time, and they will continue to be, regardless of petitions by the prominent.