July 10, 2024

High tech

NPR -  A growing number of tech companies are making artificial intelligence weapons that they claim will change how the U.S. and its allies wage war. Palmer Luckey heads one of these businesses. He became a billionaire in his early 20s after selling his Oculus VR headset to Facebook. Now, his company, Anduril, sells AI weapons to the Pentagon, which keeps some for itself and sends some to Ukraine. Seven years after starting, Anduril says it’s selling it's weapons to about 10 countries worldwide. Anduril's drones can be programmed before takeoff to search for Russian targets, circumventing Russian electronic jamming signals. But the technology has raised questions about who would be responsible if something goes wrong.

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