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It's a simple fact, says General John "Mike" Murray, we're going to have to learn to trust artificial intelligence in the battlefield. And that means, the rules governing human control over artificial intelligence might need to be relaxed. Speaking from Austin, Texas, at The Future Character of War and the Law of Armed Conflict online event, Murray provided a future battle scenario involving the rapid advance of artificial intelligence in the US military and the ethical challenges it presents. "If you think about things like a swarm of, let's say a hundred semi-autonomous or autonomous drones, some lethal, some sensing, some jamming, some in command and control -- think back to the closing ceremony of the Seoul Olympics. "Is it within a human's ability to pick out which ones have to be engaged and then make 100 individual engagement decisions against a drone swarm?" said Murray, Commander, Army Future Command (AFC). "And is it even necessary to have it a human in the loop, if you're talking about affects against an unmanned platform or against a machine.