As intelligent machines become capable of performing these kinds of technical tasks more effectively than humans can, allowing them to do so can liberate more members of the military to do work of greater ethical value. They can spend more of their days solving complex problems with other people, making operational and strategic decisions, contextualizing critical information, distinguishing between right and wrong, and commanding people and machines to perform critical missions. These are the kinds of jobs that Americans actually join the military to do. In this way, intelligent machines
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