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Autonomous Weapons

Edited by plex last updated 16th Sep 2021

Autonomous Weapons are military systems designed to operate without a human in the loop. Some have argued that they may present a destabilizing influence on geopolitics, or even a potential existential risk.

See also

Wikipedia page on Lethal Autonomous Weapons

Posts tagged Autonomous Weapons

41Apparently, of the 195 Million the DoD allocated in University Research Funding Awards in 2022, more than half of them concerned AI or compute hardware research

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60Why those who care about catastrophic and existential risk should care about autonomous weapons

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23[AN #146]: Plausible stories of how we might fail to avert an existential catastrophe

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19How does the ever-increasing use of AI in the military for the direct purpose of murdering people affect your p(doom)?

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17China's position on autonomous weapons

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12AI Alignment Podcast: On Lethal Autonomous Weapons with Paul Scharre

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12The Case against Killer Robots (link)

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2Project: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Weapons, and Meaningful Human Control

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2Technical Risks of (Lethal) Autonomous Weapons Systems

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-1CAIDP Statement on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems

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-2[Linkpost] A Chinese AI optimized for killing

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-11Limit intelligent weapons

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