Senior Pentagon Official: New Plan Is to Invest in "Autonomous Killer Robots"

In a startling admission, a senior defense official is laying bare the Pentagon's accelerating interest in autonomous killer robots. Speaking to Defense One, which didn't print the official's name so that they could speak freely, that official said that the Pentagon is looking to move away from funding research on the topic and investing in actual AI-powered weaponry instead. "We're not going to be investing in 'artificial intelligence' because I don’t know what that means," the official told the website. "We're going to invest in autonomous killer robots." "This administration cares about weapon systems and business systems," they added, "and not 'technologies.'" That kind of big talk is perfectly fine for policy wonk types, but when it comes to the dollars and cents, another official said that there's an incoming shift that offloads costs onto the private sector. "We're trying to change a business model from 'the government pays $100 million for research and [the company] builds ... Read full article.