Autonomy is not AI: most current autonomous weapons don't use frontier AI
mchorowitz · x · 2026-10-17
Michael Horowitz underscores that autonomy ≠ AI: autonomous weapon systems are a subset of all weapons, AI-using weapons are a subset of those, and an autonomous weapon may or may not use AI — AI is just one approach to implementing autonomy. Most current or planned autonomous weapon systems have nothing to do with frontier AI.
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