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The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a congressional advisory panel helmed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has mulled whether or not the U.S. should deploy artificially intelligent autonomous weapons, and, after taking into account the numerous reasons it would be a terrible idea, decided that at least toying around with the idea is “moral imperative.”
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Per Reuters, the two-day panel, which was chaired by Schmidt and vice chaired by former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, opposed the U.S. joining an international coalition of at least 30 countries that have urged a treaty to ban the development or use of autonomous weapons. Instead, the panel advised Congress to keep their options open.