Mike Horowitz
Professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and former Department of Defense official who worked on policy for autonomous weapons and authored DoD Directive 3000.09, with expertise in military technology and ethics.
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Mar 5, 2026 • 41min
Autonomous Weapons 101 + Anthropic v DoW
Mike Horowitz, a Penn political science professor and former DoD policy official who authored DoD Directive 3000.09, explains modern autonomy in weapons. He debunks misconceptions about existing systems and discusses ML-powered targeting, jamming-driven autonomy in Ukraine, the Anthropic–DoD dispute, legal limits on human control, testing challenges, and risks from automation bias and strategic overreliance.
