Don’t fear AI in war, fear autonomous weaponsThe amount of autonomy granted to machines during war would be a vital factor in determining how reliable or risky AI would beBy Andreas Kluth / Bloomberg OpinionThere is no question that artificial intelligence (AI) would transform warfare, along with pretty much everything else. As a military technology, though, AI looks less like breech-loading rifles and more like the telegraph, internet or even electricity. In that way, AI could save lives as well as cost, and free up humans to concentrate on the larger context of the mission. Long before AI, during the Cold War, Moscow built “dead-hand” systems, including one called Perimeter. However, they are still vertiginously high with all other “lethal autonomous weapons systems” (LAWS), as killer robots are officially called.
