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Public opinion conditionally permissive on military AI, survey finds

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A new survey across nine countries, including China, Germany, and the United States, reveals that public support for military AI is more influenced by general positive attitudes towards AI and hawkish foreign policy stances than by principled opposition to lethal autonomy. While unease is concentrated around fully autonomous lethal force, overall public opinion appears conditionally permissive, with perceived AI risks surprisingly correlating positively with support for military AI. Cross-national differences in these attitudes were moderate and generally aligned with geopolitical contexts. AI

IMPACT Public opinion on military AI is more nuanced than expected, with general AI attitudes and foreign policy playing larger roles than opposition to lethal autonomy.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing survey results on public attitudes towards military AI. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=2 ai=0.4]

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