I know this is likely in the pipeline anyway and maybey not covered by this news but now we have the prospect of agentic llms hallucinating enemies and a digital finger on the trigger.
Minority Report takes place in 2054... Phillip K Dick might have been onto something.
I don’t think anyone has even seriously proposed using them for weapons targeting, at least in the current broad LLM form.
If they are slow (2x as slow on a cruise missile or drone SOC) and are wrong all the time then why would they even bother? They already have AI models for visual targeting that are highly specialized for the specific job and even that’s almost entirely limited to very narrow vehicle or ship identification which is always combined with existing ballistic, radar, or GPS targeting.
Buying some LLM credits doesn’t help much at all there.
Too much of AI gets uncritically packaged with these hand wavy FUD statements IMO.
Which is obviously stupid. So if stupid people are using these things in stupid ways, that seems bad.
If grant classification is trying to drive a car non-stop (including not stopping for gas) from NY to LA, stuffing LLMs into weapons is more like trying to drive that same car from NY to London. They're just not the proper kind of tool for that, and it's not the same class of error.