Can Humans Still Control AI-Assisted Kill Chains? (with Katrina Manson)

Future of Life Institute Podcast by Gus Docker

Sep 25, 202642:19Technology

Katrina Manson is author of PROJECT MAVEN: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. She joins the podcast to discuss Project Maven and the Pentagon's use of AI in military targeting. We explore how compute...

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