Report Urges Congress to Tackle Venture Capitalists Peddling AI 'Miracle Weapons'

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Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.

A new report released Monday sounds the alarm on the growing influence of profit-hungry venture capital firms that are promoting weapons systems powered by artificial intelligence, a rapidly emerging technology that experts and watchdogs warn could be an existential threat to humanity if not strongly and properly regulated. The report, published by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, cautions that venture capital firms and their allies in Washington, D.C.

The report also comes months after the Biden administration announced its 'Replicator' initiative, a project the Pentagon characterized as an attempt to counter China with an 'AI-empowered military.

 

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