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Brookings Institution senior fellow in international security and former National Security Council senior director for strategic planning.
And so if you were to deploy those in autonomous systems without a human on the loop, not even just in the loop, but if you don't have a kill switch and you don't have any ability to stop something after it's set in motion, then that's quite dangerous.
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Thomas Wright, “AI, Workers, and National Security in a Changing World,” Brookings transcript, March 11, 2026.
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AI Verified Wright calls autonomous deployment without human control or a kill switch dangerous; this bears directly on banning autonomous lethal weapons. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Wright warns autonomous systems without human control or a kill switch are dangerous, supporting a ban on autonomous lethal weapons. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Brookings transcript (Mar. 11 2026, p. 17) records this wording under Thomas Wright. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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