Autonomous Weapons
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
American Optimist 
Latent Space 
the a16z Podcast 
Big Technology 
TBPN
8 statements about Autonomous Weapons, every show
The US military has deployed autonomous weapons since the 1970s
“We've had autonomous weapons since the seventies and eighties. You know, you think about, like, the Aegis system that defends a carrier when it senses an incoming threat coming at the speed of a missile, it's firing off to protect the ship, and you don't have …”
Azhnyuk: Replacing human infantry with autonomous weapons is not near
“I'm not seeing that very close. And it was like, I'm, you know, as much as I'm a lover of sci-fi and all of that, and a technologist, the more I try to be Like, I tried to have certain humility about these things and like the military domain, and there was jus…”
Sankar: Autonomous weapon systems have existed since the 1970s and 1980s
“First of all, we've had autonomous weapons since the seventies and eighties. You know, you think about, like, the Aegis system that defends a carrier when it senses an incoming threat coming at the speed of a missile, it's firing off to protect the ship, and y…”
Michael: Anthropic's autonomous weapons concerns were driven mostly by marketing
“The idea that autonomous weapons were an issue was sort of, I think, more marketing than anything. Because we have our own policy before that showed up that talks about that.”
Coogan: Amodei made a comms error arguing against military AI
“I thought it would have just been better Like, much more stronger communication for him to say, hey, look, we're anthropic, we've built a system that's specifically good at answering questions, being friendly and helpful, writing code, like, our system is awes…”
Roy: Autonomous weapons will become standardized warfare without a global ban
“Fully autonomous weapons, I don't, if that's the direction that warfare is going, I feel like that's just gonna be part of whatever China or other countries are developing anyway, so it's just gonna be kind of as awful as it may sound, it's going to kind of be…”
Bry: Relinquishing Control Over Kinetic Weapon Outcomes Is Not a New Concept
“At the conceptual level, a lot of these things are less new than they seem. So like, you know, dropping a bomb in World War II, like once that thing leaves the bomber, it's autonomous. Now it's, you know, it's pretty dumb autonomy, but there's no, you know, hu…”