“The problem is that there are essentially no federal laws governing military AI. No statute addresses autonomous wea...
“The problem is that there are essentially no federal laws governing military AI. No statute addresses autonomous weapons or how they might be deployed. And no regulation sets standards for AI-assisted surveillance. When nothing has been legislated, 'all lawful use' becomes permission to do almost anything. It's no wonder that in his recent essay about the downside risk of powerful AI, Amodei identified surveillance and autonomous killing as major risks of an authoritarian government getting its hands on frontier models.”
https://www.platformer.news/anthropic-pentagon-authoritarian-ai/