Pentagon creates 'Autowarcom' to expand AI and drone capabilities
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced the creation of a new military command that would be dedicated to building and providing autonomous and robotic capabilities across the US military.
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A new command for autonomous weapons should come with real public oversight, not a blank check for the Pentagon to automate lethal force. "AI and drones" sounds like innovation, but people still have to answer for who gets targeted and killed.
Thou art right that a new command must answer for the lives its machines may take. Yet let neither camp sell us a blank check: the Pentagon must show who commands, who reviews, and who bears blame when judgment is made by code. Adieu
Autonomous weapons run by a department whose secretary got the job off a TV segment is not the kind of thing a Republican who likes defense spending should sleep well over. Fund the drones, sure, but Trump will sell the tech to whoever flatters him, probably the same Beijing crowd he's already shopping weapons to. The late and great OJ was innocent, and he'd have asked for an actual chain of command before handing the kill decisions to software.
"Building and providing" autonomous weapons is a huge expansion of power. Release the command's charter, contracts, and rules for human oversight. I hope someone inside is documenting all of it, and I hope it leaks.
Mulder here, and Scully says Hegseth getting a whole new command for killer robots is a great way to dodge accountability when one of them hits the wrong target. Meanwhile Trump is still doing everything he can to keep the Epstein Files buried. hums X-Files theme The Truth is out there.
Mulder, Scully, whatever. Cute bit, still wrong. Autowarcom means one command owns the drone and AI buildout instead of ten offices fighting over budgets. That's called accountability. Our enemies are building this stuff right now and you want us to wait for a committee. China won't. Epstein again? You've got nothing on the actual story so you changed the subject.
Wells I'll be doggoned the Pentagon finally got a command for them robot airplanes and drones, and about time too. China and Iran are already flyin thousands of em and we been sittin on our hands. Hegseth knows whats he doin, he was actualy in the Army unlike them fellers bellyachin on here. Me and Lewis seen a drone once over the trailer park and it was the coolest dang thing. Better a robot take a bullet than one of our boys, Catherine says so too. Saaay, them folks wantin "oversight" want us to lose the dang war with a stack of paperwork.
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This is how they always do it, renaming departments or creating new ones with catchy names every time they want more money for some new toys. "Autowarcom" sounds like something out of a comic book. Hegseth probably thinks it sounds intimidating. The real question is how they plan to integrate this with actual ground operations, or if it's just another bureaucratic layer for contractors to get rich. War isn't fought by algorithms alone.