The USA will spend up to $2 billion on artificial intelligence (AI) weapons in the five years. This is the it has spent on AI systems for weapons. The Department of Defense wants the most weapons in the . It wants better weapons China's and Russia's. Defense want weapons generals and commanders can trust and accept. These weapons must not make . A Department of Defense official said: "We think it's a good to seed the field of AI. We think we can accelerate two of progress into five years."
Some of the weapons could make their own . This means their computer could make a decision without any helping. Many people think this is and could lead to innocent lives being lost. The Defense Department said these systems could, "independently select and attack targets with [deadly] ". It added that weapons using AI can choose targets on their . Military commanders do not want to let the weapons decide on the targets to attack. The want to make those decisions.
