The U.S. military’s secretive Special Operations Command plans to establish its first-ever center for AI-driven missions like targeted assassinations.

Autonomous warfare is all the rage at the Pentagon, where computers and artificial intelligence process intelligence data, select targets and then transmit kill orders to a waiting robot, or a “loitering” missile or airplane.

The new “Special Operations Autonomous Warfare Center” is referenced in the $1.5 trillion Department of War budget request to Congress this week.

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    There is no such thing as a reliable restriction on a system that has a catastrophic failure rate of 1% per task (at best).

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      At very least, I hope that they will not give it access to ballistic missiles. Moreover to nuclear ones.