BD Checks Out Army’s Robotic Gun: ATLAS
The Army will soon hold live-fire tests of an AI that can algorithmically spot targets and aim at them -- but a human still has to pull the trigger. Will ATLAS let future tanks fight better with smaller crews?
Army To Test ATLAS Robotic Gun: Bruce Jette
The experimental turret will use the technology — and the safeguards — from the Army’s ATLAS project, originally misrepresented in the media as building "killer robots."
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Fear & Loathing In AI: How The Army Triggered Fears Of Killer Robots
Why did an obscure Army program inspire headlines about "killer robots"?
ATLAS: Killer Robot? No. Virtual Crewman? Yes.
Alarming headlines to the contrary, the US Army isn't building robotic "killing machines." What they really want artificial intelligence to do in combat is much more interesting.