Das US-Killerroboterprogramm droht mit rücksichtslosem und gefährlichem Wettrüsten, heißt es in einem neuen Bericht – Public Citizen

From the article

>The U.S. is at risk of expediting a new global arms race, according to a [new Public Citizen report](https://www.citizen.org/article/deadly-and-imminent-report/), “Deadly and Imminent: The Pentagon’s Mad Dash for Silicon Valley’s AI Weapons.” The new report zeroes in on the Department of Defense’s Replicator program, an initiative to field artificial intelligence-empowered weapons on an expedited timeline. The report highlights and criticizes the DOD’s refusal to clarify if the AI weapons it is developing will have the capacity to deploy lethal force autonomously — without a human authorizing the specific use of force in a specific context.

>“Empowering autonomous systems to kill human beings is a frightening and all-too-near possibility that the Pentagon must avoid at all costs.” **said Savannah Wooten, People Over Pentagon Advocate at Public Citizen and author of the report.** “The time to make it crystal clear that the Pentagon will not use or further develop killer robots is now. If the U.S. bows to the profit-driven whims of Silicon Valley executives who want to play war, their cowardice will have grave and unforgivable consequences for humanity.”

Considering that automated weapon systems are already in use with the explicit goal of killing humans and automating the kill chain for decades: these articles about AI warfare are outdated, fear-clickbait and superficial, as they ignore the more fundamental danger of AI driven war systems. But I suppose it is easier to write these kind of articles every few months in order to get clicks.

*sigh*

SYL

I pray these get thrown in the MAD dustbin with nukes.