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Ukrainian unit commander predicts drone warfare will be truly unmanned in a matter of months and won't need human pilots
New drone technology is being developed and tested at a rapid pace, Brovdi said, and soon drones ma…
Chris Panella
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Pentagon says it created more hoops to jump through on AI weapons to calm fears it was 'building killer robots in the basement'
The Pentagon's new policy on artificial intelligence in weapons systems requires more people in the…
Chris Panella
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Covering aircraft with tires the way Russia has can confuse weapons looking for the plane, US military official says
Multiple Russian military aircraft were spotted last year with tires placed on top of them, but the…
Jake Epstein
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The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans
The use of drones capable of deciding whether to kill humans is alarming critics.
Tom Porter
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Palmer Luckey's startup Anduril raises $1.5 billion to build a Tesla-style weapons factory
Anduril is planning a huge factory facility for its autonomous weapons and devices that it says can…
Polly Thompson
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Palmer Luckey says Anduril is working on AI weapons that 'give us the ability to swiftly win any war'
Anduril is leading Silicon Valley's defense tech boom, and its autonomous drones, weaponry, and sur…
Polly Thompson
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Ukraine's Patriot kills of Russian planes and missiles have turned a US air-defense weapon with a troubled past into a hero
The decision to send Patriot surface-to-air missile systems to Ukraine sparked debate due to its pa…
Sinéad Baker
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Biden and Xi will sign a deal to keep AI out of control systems for nuclear weapons: report
The leaders of China and the US are due to meet Wednesday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation…
Tom Porter
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Anduril founder Palmer Luckey says the ChatGPT buzz is making politicians more interested in AI-powered weapons
Palmer Luckey told Breaking Defense that the AI hype cycle has helped those on Capitol Hill and the…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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India will be picking up AI-enabled military tech from South Korea at the DefExpo 2020
Singh met with South Korea's defence minister, Jeong Kyeongdoo-Doo in New Delhi earlier today. T…
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Warnings about 'brain-control' weapons reflect growing US concern about China's military research
The US military says China is exploring "next-generation operational concepts for intelligentized w…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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State media reports Russia has built its first batch of Poseidon doomsday torpedoes, one of Putin's 'super weapons'
The Poseidon is sometimes referred to as a "doomsday" system because its payload could potentially …
Jake Epstein
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'It's reminiscent of Occupy': Protesters in Seattle have established a communal 'autonomous zone' to prove they don't need police
"Trying to protect and honor Black life," one occupant told Insider, is "a big part of what's going…
Isaac Scher
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Putin ally Kadyrov thanks Biden for sending weapons to Ukraine, says he looks forward to capturing and using them for Russia
Ramzan Kadyrov said he was drooling at the thought of capturing US-made weapons. Russia has had muc…
Sinéad Baker
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The US Air Force is turning cargo planes into flying munitions trucks able to unleash a mass of standoff weapons
The service has been experimenting with using cargo planes to drop lots of long-range weapons that …
Ryan Pickrell
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A former Google engineer warned that robot weapons could cause accidental mass killings
Although no country has yet come forward to say it's working on fully autonomous robot weapons, man…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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China is said to be recruiting an elite group of 'patriotic' kids to help develop AI weapons
31 kids - all under 18 - have been recruited to participate in the "Experimental Program for Intell…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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Walmart has a futuristic new weapon in the war on Amazon
"The blimp-style machine would fly at heights between 500 feet and 1,000 feet (as much as 305 meter…
Ashley Lutz
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Stephen Hawking feared intelligent machines could destroy humans with weapons 'we cannot even understand'
While technology could benefit humans a great deal, Hawking wrote, researchers need to focus on mak…
Peter Kotecki
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China is developing cutting-edge weapons, and the greatest danger is that they may soon have the confidence to use them, the Pentagon warns
Senior Chinese military leadership made that point very clear in a recent meeting with US military …