Pentagon says it created more hoops to jump through on AI weapons to calm fears it was 'building killer robots in the basement'

• The Defense Department updated a decade-old directive on AI to include stricter review policies.
• The update was partially to assure people that DoD wasn't "building killer robots in the basement," a senior official said.
• The US and some of its adversaries are making rapid progress on AI weapons, with lots of controversy in the mix.

With lingering fear and confusion surrounding the future of artificial intelligence in weapons, the Pentagon recently updated a decade-old policy to assure people it isn't "building killer robots in the basement," according to a senior official.

The relatively new Department of Defense directive adds a stricter review process for developing and approving most autonomous weapons, a "good governance" move, the official said recently. But with AI booming in the military space, in not just the US but also in China and elsewhere, international pressure to check the technology's use and capabilities is growing.

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