🤖EO Accelerates AI-Powered Weapons R&D
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Pentagon green-lit pilot programs for autonomous defense systems on March 16, 2025, through executive order accelerating AI-powered weapons research and development. The decision sparks ethical alarms from scientists while aiming to outpace rivals' drone swarms as UN debates autonomous weapons treaties.
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Your AI Governance:
Sparks ethical alarms from scientists about autonomous weapons without human control.
Your Defense Edge:
Aims to outpace rivals' drone swarms in military technology competition.
Your Global Norms:
UN debates autonomous weapons treaty while America accelerates development.
Your Ethical Standards:
Raises questions about machines making life-and-death decisions without human oversight.
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EO 14294 designates which cabinet department to lead the autonomous-weapons pilot?
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National Security
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The order requires systems to comply with which 2023 Pentagon ethical-AI memo?
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AI Governance
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Critics warn the pilot may conflict with which UN CCW protocol on autonomous weapons?
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International Law
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Initial funding drawn from which FY 25 account?
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Defense Budget
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NATO's Supreme Allied Commander said allies need common _____ before fielding AI munitions.
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Alliances
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EO mandates “affirmative human engagement” for any strike with a machine-learning confidence below:
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Human-in-the-Loop
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Testing must use which NIST framework addendum for adversarial-ML risk?
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Cybersecurity
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Which Senate committee scheduled quarterly hearings on compliance?
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Legislative Oversight
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Ipsos poll: what % of Americans oppose fully autonomous lethal weapons?
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Public Opinion
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Commerce BIS indicated AI-weapon algorithms will require what license level?
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Export Controls
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Which NGO launched the “Stop Killer Robots 2.0” campaign in response?
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Ethics
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How much of the USD 950 M pilot is earmarked for independent red-team testing?
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Budget
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Japan signed an MoU to co-develop which defensive AI drone with the U.S. after the EO?
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International Relations