Days after re-entering the White House, Donald Trump tore up Joe Biden’s directives on the US government’s oversight and use of artificial intelligence (AI). Trump has instead ordered America’s AI industry be fully unleashed. Enormous ripple effects on the technology’s development and its impacts will soon follow. And they may include reshaping the future of war. A fragmenting international order has spurred a new global arms race. Meanwhile, AI-powered weapons, target detection systems and surveillance tools are evolving, as battlefield data from Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere is prompting rapid iteration. Together, these dynamics have excited military personnel and mobilized venture capitalists. But they are also raising alarm over the possibility of runaway military AI.
Trump 2.0 Will Escalate the Contest for Military AI Supremacy (Kyle Hiebert – Centre for International Governance Innovation)
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