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The United States Defense Department is going to up to $2 billion on artificial intelligence (AI) weapons over the next five years. This will the most the department has ever on AI systems for weapons. The department to have the most advanced weapons in the world. It wants its weapons to better than those of China and Russia. Defense bosses want future weapons to be trusted and accepted by military generals and commanders. They want to sure weapons in the future do not mistakes. Department official John Everett : "We think it's a good time to the field of AI. We think we can two decades of progress into five years."

Some of the new AI weapons may able to make and on their own decisions. This means computer systems and algorithms could a decision (without any human decision-making) to a target that could people. Many people think this is dangerous and could to innocent lives being lost. The Defense Department said AI technology could, "make it possible to and [use] autonomous systems that could independently select and attack targets with [deadly] force". It that weapons using AI systems can currently targets on their own, but military commanders do not want to let the weapons decide on the targets to attack. The commanders want to the final decision.