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AI in warfare

The Reith Lectures

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Chemical and Biochemical Weapons - The Final Frontier?

I am an optimist by nature. I would like to think that it isn't inevitable. But when the machine gun was first invented, one of the justifications for developing it was that it would bring an end to war. That didn't happen. And i think there are good arguments to say that neither category of weapons is particularly precise and sometimes not as effective as one might hope. The stigmatization of those weapons over time had a significant impact on the non use of chemical weapons in world war too. So i think they were morally outmoded, rather than soof tactically outmoded. Is there something else?

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