autonomous weapons

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 4, 2023 by Palmer Luckey · across every show →

Everything said about autonomous weapons, oldest first

Apr 4, 2023 positive
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2028
Luckey: US military will not remove humans from AI kill decisions
“We have a strong, actually, system for accountability, where it's always a person, as they say, on the loop. A person is always making that decision to kill. I don't think that we're going to get away from that anytime soon.”
Palmer Luckey Apr 4, 2023 ▶ 47:43 Palmer Luckey - Future of Virtual Reality, AI War, Autonomous Killing Machines, Militarized Policing
Mar 2, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Ranjan Roy Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 15:46 Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
Apr 15, 2026 negative
Opinion
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.”
Emil Michael Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 33:58 The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
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