Alok Mehta

And so what is happening is that the military almost certainly has human oversight over selection and actual execution of military strikes on targets.

To the best of our understanding, this particular situation with the school was an issue not with the

particular use of AI in this instance, but issues with the underlying data.

Essentially, I think the latest intelligence we have is that there were errors in the database that this site had previously been sort of a military installation.

Its use had been transformed.

It had been turned into a school.

And our systems, our various data feeds, had not fully incorporated that.

And so that sort of persistent error in the data

continue to make its way through the system.

And it ultimately led to the circumstance in which the school was targeted.

Yeah, so the distinction here would be the difference between telling, so sort of incorporating a bunch of information, selecting a target, and then telling a drone to attack that target.

And that would involve low levels of autonomy on the drone.

So you can tell it, I want you to go here.

I want you to drop your munitions in this location.

And then the drone will use various low levels of autonomy to make sure that as it's flying, it's able to navigate

to the location, sort of navigate around obstacles, make sort of low-level decisions to be able to continue on its flight path.

That is a big difference between the type of autonomy in which you sort of provide a much more

high level or general guidance to a drone of say, I want you to attack a strategic target, say attack enemy troop formations, and then the drone sort of flies away, has its own sort of sensors, looks at the battlefield, makes decisions about what it thinks is an enemy formation, and then engages without further human intervention and attack on that formation.

So now you have a lot more things that you want the drone to do.

The requirements are much more precise.