'A machine can shoot, Manson reports, up to “ten times faster than an assassin.” This gives the “autonomy hawks” something like an erotic frisson: one source says that “there’s really nothing quite like seeing a machine aim,” explaining their sense of “an alien aspect, some otherworld[ly] feeling, I don’t want to say ‘religious,’ that’s not the right word.”'

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How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare,” by Katrina Manson, about Drew Cukor and military uses of A.I.

The New Yorker