Autonomous Weapons Drive Military-Silicon Valley Entanglement

In a Galaxy Brain podcast episode, Charlie Warzel interviews Wired's Will Knight about the rise of autonomous weapons, tracing developments from Project Maven (2017) to recent Anthropic–Department of Defense tensions and battlefield AI use in Ukraine. They examine how such systems function, the ethical and legal safeguards (or lack thereof), and how human judgment, reliability, and governance shape future military deployments.
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