Trump’s AI mandate: Defining killer robots won’t save us — hardcoding human control will

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President Donald Trump gave the Pentagon 90 days to update the rule governing autonomy in weapon systems. That window closes this week. The administration’s instruction was not simply to adopt artificial intelligence faster. It was to do so while preserving the chain of command and operational authority.

That gives the Pentagon an opportunity to solve a harder problem than definition alone can reach.

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