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The LawFair is not really so much about autonomous weapon killer robots.

They're on the battlefield, kind of marching around.

Or any version of that that isn't sci-fi, but rather much

low hanging fruit that consists of pure software algorithms

that are incorporated into the intelligence gathering and analysis process

ranging from things at gathering and processing of sensory data,

like visual recognition, that sort of stuff.

To very different kinds of software applications to find to analyze

that, perhaps in big data applications, perhaps other kinds of ways.

But that is going to be vastly more likely to be the immediate stuff

that winds up having a role on the battlefield in a cross-national security generally.

And across all sorts of other areas, including policing,

including China's ability to have a social credit score for each one of their citizens.

I'm Matthew Khan, and this is the LawFair podcast February 9, 2019.

From the increasing development of autonomous weapons systems

to the expansion of the traditional battlefield to cyber and outer space,

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