WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump issued a memo Friday that calls for the U.S. military and national security agencies to accelerate their use of artificial intelligence, while acknowledging the need to protect civil liberties and maintain oversight over autonomous weapon systems.
The memo comes at a time of growing anxiety over AI in American society, from replacing people’s jobs to helping to identify targets on the battlefield. The Trump administration has been pushing to unleash the power of AI for the U.S. military, while some military leaders and companies that contract with the Pentagon have been noting caution and calling for guardrails.
Trump’s memo addressed much of his Cabinet, including the secretaries of defense and homeland security as well as the attorney general and director of national intelligence.
One wonders if, when the military’s LLM hallucinates some kind of target here in the US and a school here gets bombed, whether Congress will finally act to curb this delusional, nonsensical and outright demented governance.
Unfortunately they will find a way to justify it. And Democrats will write a sternly worded letter saying they do more but their hands are tied.
I suspect you’re right.
The argument will probably be something like ‘we need more AI to fix this, not less’, same as we hear with every war they supposedly do not support.