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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.

When TC 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. For many in Silicon Valley and D.C., the biggest fear is that China or Russia rolls out fully autonomous weapons first, forcing the U.S.’s hand.

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