The US Navy is developing AI-controlled submarines that could have the ability to kill without human control. The project -- called CLAWS -- is being led by the Office of Naval Research, which is responsible for the science and technology programs of the US Navy and Marine Corps. Budget documents uncovered by New Scientist, describe CLAWS as an "autonomous unmanned undersea weapon system" that could be installed on robot submarines such as the Orca underseas vehicle being developed by Boeing. These boats will be armed with 12 torpedo tubes that could be controlled by CLAWS without any input from a human. "It will clandestinely extend the reach of large UUVs [unmanned underwater vehicles] and increase the mission areas into kinetic effects," read the documents.

The United States Navy is developing robot submarine which will be controlled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems – with the ability to potentially kill without explicit human input. The project is named as'CLAWS' by the US Navy; however, very little information has been released about it. According to a report by New Scientist, the project is described as an'autonomous undersea weapon system' and carried out by the Office of Naval Research. Details of this killer-submersible were revealed as part of the 2020 budget documents which also disclosed its AI system name. Since this project is a'top secret', only a few details have been released including the fact that it will use sensors and algorithms to perform the complex missions on their own.