Militaries mull the use of AI in war

Militaries are weighing autonomous weapons even as experts urged caution. UK defense officials are considering lifting requirements that humans should always choose targets, with one telling the Financial Times that “our adversaries won’t care about having a human in the loop.”

Other NATO countries are debating relaxing such ethical constraints, and AI-guided drones are increasingly able to choose their own targets in Ukraine when Russian jamming prevents direct human control. Iranian cyber operations have been supercharged by US AI models such as ChatGPT. The US is also pushing to unleash fully autonomous AI-guided weapons, although a top special operations officer said that troops must be “careful” that AI “will deliver violence only where we intend it to be delivered.”