“There’s a lot of unemployed philosophers around,” the philosopher told me. “But how many of them want to go work for the military?” I’d reached out to Peter Asaro, who is also a professor of media at the New School and the vice chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, to talk about a new program by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, that aims to answer a thorny question: How well will autonomous weapons adhere to ethical questions? In its budget request from 2024, DARPA had allotted $5 million to the AI ethics program, known as ASIMOV, with $22 million to follow in 2025.
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