I do not want to live in a world where the Chinese Communist Party is the only power with lethal autonomous weapons any more than I wanted to live in a world where the Soviet Union was the only power with nuclear weapons. The reason to build weapons is not because we want to but because we believe we have to, because we do not want to live disarmed and defenseless in a world full of predators. We should not build weapons because we are eager to use them but because we intend to make it so we never have to. We should build the most capable weapons we can because we want to prevent conflict and
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