Toward Dual-Use Deterrence On The Moon

Ukraine Becomes World's AI Weapons Laboratory By Craig S. Smith of Eye on AI,  I was in Ukraine in February and wrote this piece before the start of the war with Iran, but its implications are even more relevant today. My interest in lethal autonomous weapons dates back to my time with the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, where full autonomy was debated but largely dismissed as ethically unacceptable. But in practice, the step to full autonomy is smaller than it sounds. Once a human is no longer actively controlling a system...

The Manufactured 'Bipartisan' Push For An AI Kill Switch Authored by Jordan Schachtel via American Greatness, The AI Kill Switch Act, introduced Thursday by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas), seeks to hand the government unprecedented authority to order private companies to throttle, suspend, or shut down products in "kill switch" fashion, purely on their own arbitrary determination, with fines up to $20 million a day. Behind this carefully staged rollout is a fanatical coalition that looks like a broad consensus, but it is mostly one funding network...

Judge In Lindsay Clancy Trial Orders Jurors' Identities To Be Sealed Indefinitely Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The judge in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy ordered that the jurors' names be sealed indefinitely due to concerns about their privacy. Judge William Sullivan said on Sept. 14 that the jury list will remain impounded until a new order is issued, citing "a real and present" risk of personal harm to the jurors and to the integrity of their work if the list is made public. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not...