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How AI helped Trump attack Iran

How AI helped Trump attack Iran

The risks and rewards of AI usage in the battlefield

The Story · The Times

March 9, 202630m 56s

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Show Notes

The use of Artificial Intelligence by militaries used to be talked about in the abstract, but during the US and Israel’s strikes on Iran we’ve seen it used in real time. So what happens when you have robots who can make battlefield decisions quicker than the speed of thought? And what made the Trump administration fall out with one of the world’s leading AI companies?


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Guest: David Leslie, Professor of ethics, technology and society in the Digital Environment Research Institute at Queen Mary University of London.

Host: Rosie Wright.

Producers: Harry Stott, Sophie McNulty. 

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Read more: How AI helps 20 US troops do the work of 2,000 in Iran war

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Clips: Fox, CBS News, Reuters.

Photo: Getty Images.

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