Courtney Linder, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Some students, faculty remain uneasy about CMU's Army AI Task Force
"Earlier this month, the Artificial Intelligence Task Force
was introduced at the National Robotics Engineering Center. It’s meant
as a hub for universities and private-industry partners to conduct
research on AI in military applications.
While those on campus recognize CMU’s storied history with the U.S.
Department of Defense — including contracting with the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a regular basis and the hundreds of
millions of defense dollars flowing into the university’s Software
Engineering Institute — critics say they wish they had more information
on this new work with the Army.
“We’re concerned that [the university] didn’t ask for any campus
input or announce it,” said Wilson Ekern, a sophomore studying technical
writing and German. “There’s a pretty big effort to get engineering and
computer science students plugged into this military industrial
complex.”
His sentiments come at a time when Silicon Valley and the tech
industry, at large, are toeing a gray line between creating useful
innovations for defense and civilian protection and producing autonomous
weapons with the potential to kill."
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