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What's more, Fedasuik noted, is that "China doesn’t appear focused on lethal autonomous weapons or automated nuclear launch, as some have suggested."
Indeed, the Gerogetown researchers' probe of more than 66,000 Chinese procurements from April to November 2020 found that that kind of technology was purchased the least in the dataset they surveyed, while AI or autonomous vehicles made up a third of all the procurements. In short, the researcher determined that although he and his team "found that the Chinese military is 'intelligentizing' warfare by purchasing AI systems for all manner of applications, including autonomous vehicles, intelligence analysis, decision support, electronic warfare and cyber operations," there's also "reason to be skeptical of the most ominous predictions about China’s efforts to fully automate warfare through 'doomsday'-like weapons.
Lest we forget that this was a Georgetown researcher publishing in Capitol Hill's favorite newspaper, Fedasuik repeatedly stated that the US should be doing more to stifle, and not advance, China in the supposed "arms race for AI.
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