autonomous weapon systems
also referred to as: autonomous weapon system
2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2026 by Michael Horowitz · across every show →
Everything said about autonomous weapon systems, oldest first
Mar 6, 2026 negative
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…”
Mar 6, 2026 positive
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…”