Wednesday March 20th @ 8pm

Pentagon-funded research and development on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in warfare is moving ahead quickly. Companies like Palentir, Anduril, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Starlink are developing new applications that are changing how wars of the future will be waged. Already, the war in Ukraine and Israel’s assault on Gaza are testing grounds for new automated weaponry.

The dangers of AI are great. We are now seeing the emergence of robotic weapons that have the capacity to take human lives without human control, including autonomous killer robots and autonomous drones and drone swarms. Death by algorithm.

This webinar will describe these weapons and what the future of AI warfare looks like and the dangers of this Brave New World now taking shape.

Presenter

Frank Panopoulos is a human rights attorney who has worked for nonviolence, peace, and justice since 1979. He recently published an article entitled Pentagon Aims to Create a Human-Machine Soldier as Part of Dangerous New Artificial Intelligence Race

Frank has spent time in prison for acts of non-violent civil disobedience, including two Plowshares Actions in the 1980s (AVCO and Trident II). His current work includes representing prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay Prison, and in Florida state prisons; and anti-drone war litigation.