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AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: autonomous weapons enter the battlefield
The military use of AI-enabled weapons is growing, and the industry that provides them is booming
Composite: The Guardian/Getty ImagesThe increasing appetite for combat tools that blend human and machine intelligence has led to an influx of money to companies and government agencies that promise they can make warfare smarter, cheaper and faster. Founded by Palmer Luckey – a 31-year-old, pro-Trump tech billionaire who sports Hawaiian shirts and a soul patch – Anduril secured a contract earlier this year to help build the Pentagon’s unmanned warplane program. Photograph: Mike Whitehurst/Ministry of defence/Crown Copyright/PAThis lack of regulations is not a problem unique to autonomous weapons, experts say, and is part of a broader issue that international legal regimes don’t have good answers for when a technology malfunctions or a combatant makes a mistake in conflict zones.
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