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New AI-supercharged weapon systems will need to be "very, very carefully designed" to comply with international and domestic laws, MPs have been told.
And it would be the software behind the systems that would dictate like never before just how effective any new missiles, guns or electromagnetic jammers were, a defence official told a select committee.
Defence ministry deputy secretary Anton Youngman said it was time for some serious thinking by New Zealand.
"One of the key points that we talk about here is that with these new capabilities ... they need to be very, very carefully designed to comply with international and domestic laws," he said.
The briefing coincided with the first week of the Iran war.
Experts said the war was testing out for real the questions of what artificial intelligence should be used in warfare and who controlled it.
Fox News has reported that the advance in AI "is changing the nature of the battlefield by speeding up targeting and analysing intelligence all while raising new concerns over the role of human judgment and oversight in modern warfare".
The Guardian reported, "The use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than 'the speed of thought' experts have said, amid fears human-decision-makers could be sidelined."
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