Palmer Luckey

There's

there's no moral high ground either in saying all you have to do is figure out how to jam us and you win.

And it sounds like a lot of defense systems that exist today kind of have this type of autonomous mode.

I mean, this is another point.

It's usually not one that I make on a stage, but I'll get confronted by journalists who say, oh, well, you know, we shouldn't open Pandora's box.

And my point to them is that Pandora's box was opened a long time ago.

Anti-radiation missiles that seek out surface-to-air missile launchers, we've been using them since pre-Vietnam era.

Our destroyer's Aegis systems are capable of

locking on and firing on targets totally autonomously.

Almost all of our ships are protected by close-in weapon systems that shoot down incoming mortars, incoming missiles, incoming drones.

I mean, we've been in this world of systems that act out our will autonomously for decades.

And so the point I would make to people is you're not asking to not open Pandora's box.

You're asking to shove it back in and close it again.

And

The whole point of the allegory is that such cannot be done.

And so that's the way that I look at it.

We need all of our robots and all of our people to be getting the right information at the right time.

That means they need a common view of the battlefield.

The way that you can present that view to a human is very different from the way that you present it to a robot.

Robots are great.