Quote of the day by Anduril founder Palmer Lucky: 'There's no moral high ground to making a land mine that can't tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor'

Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey warned against the ethical implications of infusing Artificial Intelligence into weapons systems, stating, "There's no moral high ground to making a land mine that can't tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor." Speaking during a TED talk, Luckey argued that dumb weapons could indiscriminately kill without context or understanding of the target, making intelligence-driven warfare a necessary step to prevent future catastrophes.

He drew this conclusion based on the notion of deterrence preventing different superpowers from waging war, and emphasized the importance of considering the holistic picture, including the use of machine learning to classify different moving elements from various sources of imagery, rather than isolated implementations.