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Future of Life Institute urges lawmakers to ban autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute praised Anthropic and OpenAI for refusing to develop AI for the Department of War, specifically concerning autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. He emphasized that AI should always have meaningful human control, especially in lethal applications, and that current AI is too unpredictable for such high-stakes uses. Tegmark urged lawmakers to codify these principles into law, arguing that fully autonomous weapons pose risks to national security through escalation and proliferation. AI

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  1. Future of Life Institute TIER_1 · Future of Life Institute ·

    Statement from Max Tegmark on the Department of War’s ultimatum

    "Our safety and basic rights must not be at the mercy of a company's internal policy; lawmakers must work to codify these overwhelmingly popular red lines into law."