Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Defense, directed to update its directive on autonomy in weapon systems within three months and rapidly onboard advanced AI models.
“as the Pentagon rapidly expands AI use across intelligence and battlefield decision-making.”
Source→“The US Defense Department Is Now a Major Balance-Sheet Backer of Deeptech”
Source→“When you look at the overall Defense Department of War's budget, one percent, one percent goes to autonomous systems. That's not nearly enough. Make that five percent — I don't know the right mix, but it needs to go up and it needs to go up quickly.”
Source→“I don't see additional evidence from the government really justifying what it did. If anything, it seems like the record, in some ways, has gotten worse for the government. — U.S. District Judge Rita Lin”
Source→“The legal standoff between Anthropic and the Defense Department over use-case limits for Claude sets a precedent for whether AI companies can enforce ethical guardrails against government clients.”
Source→“SpaceX is reportedly in talks to sell the Defense Department billions of dollars' worth of AI computing capacity”
Source→“Issues such as military use of AI, intelligence community procurement of AI tools, and protecting AI models from espionage and distillation attacks are all on the table.”
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