Eza Raskin predicts that competitive military dynamics will force removal of humans from autonomous weapons decision loops.
“If there's a drone, and, you know, you and I are fighting out there on the battlefield, and I have my drone army and you have your drone army, and my drone army, before it shoots anyone, has to go ask a human, and yours doesn't, who's gonna win? So, it's obvious that humans are gonna be taken out of the loop.”
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