government surveillance and cyber weapons.25 We felt that the best approach similarly was to advocate for responsible policies and laws regarding AI and the military. We rolled up our sleeves to learn more and develop more refined views. This led us back to our six ethical principles that informed the ethical issues applicable to AI and weapons. We concluded that three were most at stake—reliability and safety, transparency, and most importantly, accountability. Only by addressing all three of these could anyone maintain public confidence that AI would be deployed in a way that would keep
