Dave Blundin

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Palmer Luckey: Autonomous Weapons Are Ancient and Why Anduril…

• How Long Have Autonomous Weapons Existed?

  Palmer Luckey says autonomous weapons have existed for thousands of years. He defines them as weapons that carry out what you program them to do, independent of the operator or the engineer, and he says a new set of technology is only making them better.

  Dave Blundin asks who unleashes the weapons if drones fly instead of pilots, and whether that call is made on the aircraft or sent back to headquarters. Palmer Luckey says the change is not as large as people think. Weapons have been making their own kill decisions for decades. The Aegis system on destroyers has a fully autonomous mode. Flip a button and it shoots down anything inside a programmed range, with no human confirmation. CIWS and

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