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Elissa Slotkin: “Right now there's no law saying that you couldn't have…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Slotkin Questions DOD Officials on Unlawful Orders, Troops at the Polls, and AI

Published | Video Starts at 04:05

Great. And what about having a human being in the loop on decisions of life and death, you know, of targeting, I think about nuclear weapons? Right. Right now there's no law saying that you couldn't have artificial intelligence and sort of an autonomous system make decisions on the deployment of nuclear weapons. What do you think about having a human being in the decision tree on the use of lethal force? Senator? Having a human being on the loop in all decisions, I think is important. (04:05–04:17)

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Asserts that no current law prohibits AI from making decisions on nuclear weapon deployment.

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