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Every Silicon AI News story about Autonomous Weapons, month by month, newest first.
Kim Jong Un watched the launch on Saturday. South Korea says it tracked the missile and could shoot such a weapon down; the AI claim comes only from Pyongyang.
North Korea fired a missile from near Wonsan early on Saturday, October 3. State media said Kim Jong Un oversaw it. Kim Yo Jong, his sister, said it uses AI to change its flight path at low altitude, so there is “no way to avoid” it.
A memo from the acting Army secretary creates the Futures and Autonomous Systems Command and an acquisition office for autonomy. Priority systems are due by fiscal 2028.
The US Army announced on October 2 that it is forming the US Army Futures and Autonomous Systems Command, known as FASCOM. A memo signed by Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle also creates a new acquisition executive for autonomy. It follows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s September 30 speech announcing a Pentagon-wide autonomous warfare command.
Rules on human review, reliability and ethics were cut, The Washington Post reports. Countries decide in November whether to start treaty talks.
UN talks in Geneva on lethal autonomous weapons ended on September 5 with a final report that was much weaker than earlier drafts. Human Rights Watch says states including the US and Russia cut references to ethics, predictability, and reliability. The Washington Post reported on September 26 how the changes were made behind closed doors.
The 2–1 ruling keeps Claude out of Defense Department work. The judge who dissented said the law was meant for foreign sabotage.
A federal appeals court in Washington ruled 2–1 on September 25 that the Pentagon can keep calling Anthropic a “supply chain risk”. The label lets the Defense Department remove Claude from its systems and bar contractors from using it in their Pentagon work. Anthropic says it disagrees and is considering further review.