Pentagon sees broader role for AI in setting military targets

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envision “systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring”, evolving from what it describes as the current practice of having “‘human in the loop’ systems, in which a human initiates actions”

the Pentagon announced it would field advanced, AI-enabled tools to “compress the time it takes to turn intelligence into informed options for commanders around the world”

requires autonomous and semi-autonomous weapons systems to undergo reviews to ensure they are designed to allow commanders and operators to exercise “appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force”

Anthropic, which provides its AI tools to the Pentagon’s classified networks, including for use in Iran operations, fell out with the agency over the company’s insistence that the technology is not yet reliable enough for what chief executive Dario Amodei described as “fully autonomous weapons” and that humans should make the final decision to use force.

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