{"id":20026,"date":"2015-12-16T06:47:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T14:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/pentagon-seeks-12-15-billion-for-ai-weapons-research"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:43","slug":"pentagon-seeks-12-15-billion-for-ai-weapons-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/pentagon-seeks-12-15-billion-for-ai-weapons-research","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Seeks $12 -$15 Billion for AI Weapons Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-seeks-12-15-billion-for-ai-weapons-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The news this month is full of stories about money pouring into AI research. First we got the news about the $15 million granted to the new <a href=\"http:\/\/futureoflife.org\/2015\/12\/03\/15-million-granted-to-new-ai-research-center-at-cambridge-university\/\">Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence<\/a>. Then Elon Musk and friends dropped the news about <a href=\"http:\/\/futureoflife.org\/2015\/12\/11\/openai-announced\/\">launching OpenAI<\/a> to the tune of $1 billion, promising that this would be a not-for-profit company committed to safe AI and improving the world. But that all pales in comparison to the $12-$15 billion that the Pentagon is requesting for the development of AI weapons.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, \u201cThe Pentagon\u2019s fiscal 2017 budget request will include $12 billion to $15 billion to fund war gaming, experimentation and the demonstration of new technologies aimed at ensuring a continued military edge over China and Russia.\u201d The military is looking to develop more advanced weapons technologies that will include autonomous weapons and deep learning machines.<\/p>\n<p>While the research itself would be strictly classified, the military wants to ensure that countries like China and Russia know this advanced weapons research is taking place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futureoflife.org\/2015\/12\/15\/pentagon-seeks-12-15-billion-for-ai-weapons-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news this month is full of stories about money pouring into AI research. First we got the news about the $15 million granted to the new Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence. Then Elon Musk and friends dropped the news about launching OpenAI to the tune of $1 billion, promising that this would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,9,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-military","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20026","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69013,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20026\/revisions\/69013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}