America’s tech sector is moving from Silicon Valley and innovation to the Pentagon and geopolitics. In this not-so-brave new world, the rules of weaponization.
In early 2021, an official report commissioned by the White House and Congress urged the United States and its allies to reject calls for a global ban on artificial intelligence (AI)-based autonomous weapon systems. rice field. According to the report, America was “unprepared to defend and compete in the AI age.”
According to authors former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Pentagon veteran Robert Work, “By 2025, the Pentagon and intelligence agencies will need to be AI-ready.” It was an ambitious, but ambitious goal.
But what they were really pushing was large-scale public AI investment that supposedly served the “national interest” but also supported private interest motivations.
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