The Pentagon is advancing the use of artificial intelligence on the battlefield, yet some military leaders are urging caution. They express concerns about the risks and ethical challenges associated with deploying advanced AI technologies.
This article explores the concept of a fully robotized, drone-based defensive line for the future, where autonomous systems operate at the edge and humans remain out of harm's way. The proposal aims to scale drone usage by treating them as infrastructure, coordinated by control nodes and a cognitive center.
This is today’s edition of The Download, covering President Donald Trump's new AI executive order, signed less than two weeks after he scrapped a previous one. The content also touches on the use of smart glasses for warfare. The new order aims to promote and regulate artificial intelligence in the United States.
A UN forum on lethal autonomous systems, which in 2017 saw AI warfare shift from hypothetical to a near reality. An attendee realized the urgent relevance of killer robots in military conflicts.
Google DeepMind employees have voted to unionize to prevent their AI technology from being used by the Israeli and US militaries. Staffers requested recognition from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite the Union, citing concerns about AI models being complicit in international law violations.
Over 600 Google employees, including many from the DeepMind AI lab, signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to prevent the Pentagon from using Google's AI models for classified military purposes. They argue that rejecting such classified workloads is the only way to ensure Google is not associated with potential harms.
ARMOR 2025 is a new military-aligned benchmark designed to evaluate the safety of large language models (LLMs) in defense applications, beyond civilian contexts. It addresses the gap in existing benchmarks by grounding evaluations in military doctrines like the Law of War, Rules of Engagement, and Joint Ethics Regulation.