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Silicon Valley is debating if AI weapons should be allowed to decide to kill
Silicon Valley founders like Palmer Luckey and Joe Lonsdale have been grappling with fully autonomous weapons.
Though some argue weapons like mines and missiles can operate autonomously, this is a qualitatively different form of autonomy than, say, a turret that identifies, acquires, and fires on targets without human intervention. When TechCrunch asked Lonsdale for further comment, he emphasized that defense tech companies shouldn’t be the ones setting the agenda on lethal AI. But the war in Ukraine may have turned the tide against activists, providing both a trove of combat data and a battlefield for defense tech founders to test on.
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