As Australia resists new laws to restrain AI weapons development, Australian companies are using real wars to test their killing power.
Matilda Byrne
Matilda Byrne is currently undertaking a PhD at RMIT’s Social and Global Studies Centre where she is a sessional lecturer in international relations, security, global governance and disarmament. She is the National Coordinator of the Australia Stop Killer Robots campaign, based at SafeGround, an Australian non-for-profit that seeks to reduce impacts of legacy and emerging weapons.
KILLING BY ALGORITHM
Australia lacks adequate ethical restraints on its booming development of autonomous weapons that kill with minimal human input.