Autonomous Weapon Systems
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Altakar: DoD Directive 3000.09 sets rules for AI in autonomous weapons
“There is a autonomous weapon system standard called 3000 oh nine that basically outlines exactly how AI can be used on an autonomous system.”
Horowitz: Claude cannot power autonomous weapons because it requires deterministic algorithms
“The kind of algorithms that you're going to be most likely to use in that context are much more deterministic than, say, like, Claude trained on the slop of the internet. And so, Anthropik's not wrong that their tech, like, isn't ready for prime time for auton…”
Horowitz: Autonomous weapons will be essential in communication-denied conflicts
“And in what the military would call a degraded or denied communication environment, something like an autonomous weapon system will be essential. For all the, for lots of different kinds of weapons to be able to operate, and, you know, algorithm, algorithmic o…”
Autonomous weapons create an accountability gap in existing war crime laws
“One of the interesting conversations that's happening right now is around autonomous weapon systems and accountability for harm in settings of war, where we have war crimes, but they require intentionality, and if a robot is committing a war crime, then there'…”