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Policy Discussions on Future Use of Autonomous Weapons Likely

Policy Discussions on Future Use of Autonomous Weapons Likely
An engineer with Robotic Research LLC, conducts a Pegasus test run during the Army's Project Convergence exercise last month. Pegasus is a family of robotic air and ground vehicles equipped with AI to avoid obstacles and create full 3D mapping. (U.S. Army)

As the U.S. Army recruits the other military services to participate with their systems in next year's Project Convergence exercise to showcase significantly contracted sensor-to-shooter timelines through artificial intelligence (AI), policy discussions on the future use of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) are likely. One industry expert said that the U.S. military's employment of LAWS is inevitable. "This is going to be a tricky situation over the next couple of years because the weapons systems are going to need to…

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