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Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, an ...
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Palantir, Anduril and a suite of other Tolkien-inspired tech nightmares want to integrate artificial intelligence into every aspect of the U.S. military. Both companies have software suites they’re pitching as agents that will help make command decisions during combat. An AI general, if you will.
Yes, that’s a terrible idea.
On this episode of Angry Planet, Cameron Hunter and Bleddyn Bowen will tell us why. Hunter is a researcher at the University of Copenhagen and Bowen is a professor of Astropolitics at Durham University. They’ve just written a paper that skewers the idea that AI will ever be able to make command decisions.
- The narrow definition of AI
- The folly of the AI general
- The games AI can’t win
- “Targeting things is a command decision”
- The IDF’s use of Microsoft’s use of AI systems
- “The enemy gets a vote”
- Killing more doesn’t mean winning more
- American military as a “glass tank”
- Matthew gets lost in a rant
- “They don’t even have an animal’s intelligence”
- The very real military uses of AI
Palantir’s pitch
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