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The partnership brings together the world’s most valuable AI company, and Anduril, one of the most prominent firms in a new crop of defense startups. It makes drones, military software, and ...
Google's parent company has lifted a ban on artificial intelligence (AI) being used for developing weapons and surveillance tools after changing its long-standing principles. Alphabet has ...
In 2018, the company banned the use of its AI in weapons, after it faced internal protests over a Defense Department contract to use Google tech to analyze drone video.
A military artificial intelligence arms race is an arms race between two or more states to develop and deploy lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). Since the mid-2010s, many analysts have noted the emergence of such an arms race between superpowers for better military AI, [1] [2] driven by increasing geopolitical and military tensions.
In August Anduril raised $1.5 billion in series F funding led by Founders Fund and Sands Capital, valuing the company at $14bn. The proceeds were to establish manufacturing facilities for autonomous weapons systems. [35] [36] On July 12, 2024, Anduril and its executives were sanctioned by the Chinese government due to arms sales over Taiwan. [37]
Shield AI develops AI-powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft called V-BAT through its acquisition of Martin UAV. In 2022, Brazil ordered a batch of V-BATs for its defense unit. [22] The company has also developed a drone swarming capability called V-BAT Teams, which enables a single human operator to command a minimum of four V ...
Google’s updated, public AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue applications for weapons and surveillance. In a previous version of the principles seen ...
Lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs) are a type of autonomous military system that can independently search for and engage targets based on programmed constraints and descriptions. LAWs are also known as lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), autonomous weapon systems (AWS), robotic weapons or killer robots. LAWs may operate in the air, on land ...