SPACEX TO COMPETE IN PENTAGON CONTEST FOR AUTONOMOUS DRONE TECH

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SpaceX and its wholly owned subsidiary, xAI, are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contract to produce voice-controlled autonomous drone swarming technology. While Elon Musk has been enthusiastic about advancing AI, he has previously argued for a ban on autonomous weapons that can select and engage their own targets and operate beyond meaningful human control. OpenAI is also working on the effort by supporting a successful submission from Applied Intuition. The company's contribution to the project will be limited solely to the conversion of voice and other instructions from battlefield commanders into digital instructions. Its technology won't be used for the operation of the drone swarm, weapons integration, or target authority.