ArmyTechnology:

A U.S. Government-appointed panel has recommended against banning the development of artificial intelligence (AI) software-driven weapons.

In a draft report for U.S. Congress, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) panel gave its advice after concluding two days of public discussion on how the U.S. should consider AI for national security and technology upgrades.

The panel is headed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Panel vice-chairman Robert Work also advocated continuing with the development as autonomous weapons can reduce casualties or accidents caused by target misidentification.

The move comes as a coalition of non-governmental organisations has been advocating the ban on such technologies citing that human intellect is necessary to assess an attack’s proportionality…

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