Artificial intelligence technologies, which have developed at a great rapid rapidly in the recent period, are being brought to the agenda with the benefits they will provide for humanity. Because both states and companies often take care to highlight this aspect of the business. However, there is also a dark side of this explosion in the field of artificial intelligence, which is no longer showing itself clearly. As a matter of fact, this week came from the Pentagon to reveal what is waiting for us.

The Pentagon, the US Department of Defense aims to assign autonomous robots on the battlefield in the near future. A senior Pentagon official who spoke to Defense One, says that they are interested in turning it into autonomous killer robots, not by developing artificial intelligence technologies: “We will not invest in artificial intelligence because I don’t know what it means. We will invest in autonomous killer robots. It is not interested in technology. “

Pentagon, who has an extremely honest attitude on this issue because he speaks anonymously, clearly expresses the US’s pragmatic approach to artificial intelligence and robots.

The Pentagon will activate the private sector to create the “killer robots”

As in the space program, the United States will rely on the private sector and ask them to do the real expenditure during the R & D stage. Pentagon, which will make relatively small investments for companies that show remarkable works in this field, will ask them to provide the financing of the first prototypes to develop. Companies that can provide this will develop their prototypes and present them to the Pentagon. At the end of this process, the company, which presents the winning project, will be the foundation of a highly profitable cooperation. On the other hand, the Pentagon will have the chance to choose among more than one prototype without making very large investments.

Pentagon calls these robots Law, Lethal Autonomous Weapons. Speaking to Defense One, the Pentagon official says that there are cautious approaching these killer robots in the Pentagon, but transferring this to the private sector will facilitate this part. These statements from the United States show that Laws will become a reality in the very near future.

As a matter of fact, the artificial intelligence world is gradually taking the first steps to keep up with this approach. If you remember, Google recently made changes in artificial intelligence principles and paved the way for the use of this technology in weapons. Just a few weeks after this change, the arrival of such an explanation from the Pentagon clearly shows what direction the course is.