Just how are powerful AI models being used in warfare overseas' In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel sits down with Will Knight, a senior writer at Wired, to discuss the rise of autonomous weapons. From the origins of Project Maven to the recent falling-out between Anthropic and the Department of Defense, they trace what's happening as artificial intelligence moves from summarizing documents to informing decisions on the battlefield. How do these weapons work' What are the safeguards' Who decides what values get baked into these models' As autonomous systems become harder to avoid, where exactly is the line between human judgment and machine decision making' Warzel and Knight help explain how the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are more entangled than ever and where warfare goes from here. Warzel: I'm Charlie Warzel, and this is Galaxy Brain, a show where today we are going to talk about autonomous weapons and the future of AI in warfare. It's a very strange time to be...
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