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Inside the Plan to Teach Robots the Laws of War. Artificial intelligence is coming to warfare. Can it learn ethics?


Artificial intelligence is coming to warfare. Can it learn ethics?

Centuries ago, stories circulated of talking, disembodied heads—called “brazen heads”—whose creation was alternately credited to their inventors’ mechanical brilliance or friendly relationship with demons. United by a love of Burning Man and hacktivism, they were on the country’s border with Pakistan to spread the gospel of open-source data, solar power, and the liberatory potential of the internet. Its core team is fairly small, employing roughly 100 program managers at any given time and operating out of an office on a quiet street in Arlington, Virginia, across from an ice-skating rink.

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