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Defining a role for AI ethics in national security

We spoke with Mariarosaria Taddeo, an associate professor and senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Dstl Ethics Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute working on digital and AI ethics about two recent reports from the UK and the US on using AI in national defence and security.

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Venema, L. Defining a role for AI ethics in national security. Nat Mach Intell 3, 370–371 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00344-9

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