About the book
Paul Scharre, a former Army Ranger and Pentagon defense expert, examines weapons that can find and strike targets without a human deciding. He traces artificial intelligence in warfare from the noise-seeking Wren torpedoes Germany used in World War II to submarine-hunting robot ships and autonomous cyber weapons. The book covers the campaign to ban such systems and their legal and ethical problems. Through interviews with ethicists, activists, psychologists and defense experts, Scharre weighs the challenges centaur warfighters pairing human and machine thinking might face. He also points to mishaps in complex automated systems, such as an F-22 computer failure over the International Date Line. Defensive autonomous weapons under human supervision are already in use in at least thirty countries.
Bill Gates found its look at A.I. in warfare hard to put down and credited Scharre, a veteran who helped shape U.S. policy on autonomous weapons, with clearly laying out the case for and against machine-driven war.
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Bill Gates (Founder/Microsoft)
Autonomous weapons aren’t exactly top of mind for most around the holidays, but this thought-provoking look at A.I. in warfare is hard to put down. It’s an immensely complicated topic, but Scharre offers clear explanations and presents both the pros and cons of machine-driven warfare. His fluency with the subject should come as no surprise: he’s a veteran who helped draft the U.S. government’s policy on autonomous weapons.
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