Heidy Khlaaf, the chief scientist at the AI Now Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for ethical use of the technology, said she was concerned that reliance on AI to rapidly process information for life-or-death decisions could be a way for militaries to avoid accountability for mistakes.

“It’s very dangerous that ‘speed’ is somehow being sold to us as strategic here, when it’s really a cover for indiscriminate targeting when you consider how inaccurate these models are,” Khlaaf said.

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