{"id":122479,"date":"2021-05-10T16:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T23:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-pentagon-inches-toward-letting-ai-control-weapons"},"modified":"2021-05-10T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T23:22:43","slug":"the-pentagon-inches-toward-letting-ai-control-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-pentagon-inches-toward-letting-ai-control-weapons","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-pentagon-inches-toward-letting-ai-control-weapons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last August, several dozen military <a data-vars-link-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/drones\/?intcid=inline_amp\" data-vars-link-type=\"Internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/drones\/?intcid=inline_amp\" target=\"_top\">drones<\/a> and tanklike <a data-vars-link-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/robotics\/?intcid=inline_amp\" data-vars-link-type=\"Internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/robotics\/?intcid=inline_amp\" target=\"_top\">robots<\/a> took to the skies and roads 40 miles south of Seattle. Their mission: Find terrorists suspected of hiding among several buildings.<\/p>\n<p>So many robots were involved in the operation that no human operator could keep a close eye on all of them. So they were given instructions to find\u2014and eliminate\u2014enemy combatants when necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The mission was just an exercise, organized by the <a data-vars-link-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/\" data-vars-link-type=\"External\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/\" target=\"_top\">Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/a>, a blue-sky research division of the Pentagon; the robots were armed with nothing more lethal than radio transmitters designed to simulate interactions with both friendly and enemy robots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last August, several dozen military drones and tanklike robots took to the skies and roads 40 miles south of Seattle. Their mission: Find terrorists suspected of hiding among several buildings. So many robots were involved in the operation that no human operator could keep a close eye on all of them. So they were given [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}