A division of the U.S. army responsible for Contracting (Army Contracting Command), suggested a potential industrial contractors and research teams to submit ideas that will help in the creation of an improved combat system ATLAS (Advanced Targeting, and Lethality of the Automated System).
The Pentagon plans to equip its artificial intelligence and learning ability to ensure autonomy. This will allow the weapon “to seize, identify, and hit targets at least 3 times faster than with manual pointing”.
One of the leading experts in the field of AI is a computer science Professor at the University of California, Berkeley Stuart Russell expressed deep concern about the idea of building an Autonomous combat machines, self-making the decision to destroy targets.
“Very similar,” he says, “that we are entering an arms race, where the current ban on fully Autonomous lethal weapons will be abolished as soon as it is deemed politically expedient”.
In 2017, Russell became the hero of the video footage shot for the campaign “Stop killer robots”, which described a dystopian future Autonomous weapons, which “decides who lives and who dies, which destroys all moral barriers.”
In the campaign involved a coalition of non-governmental organizations advocating for a ban on Autonomous weapons and the preservation of human control over the use of force. Its members warn that the provision of machines of the right to independently select and attack targets may lead to a new arms race — this time, robotic.
Source — FBO