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What the lame-duck NDAA could still require of autonomous weapons

Congress is back Monday with two very different bills. The Senate’s would write the Pentagon’s autonomy rules into law and ban AI from nuclear launch decisions. The House’s tells the Pentagon to rewrite the rules itself. Here is what each would require.

Machine Front graphic: “Two NDAA bills. Two very different rules for autonomous weapons,” comparing the Senate’s S. 4784 requirements with the House’s H.R. 8800 directive rewrite

Graphic: Autonomy Wire

Why it matters

Our read: plan against the Senate text. Its requirements for human supervision, intervention, manual fallback, decision logging and three-year verifications are specific engineering and documentation work, and both bills push toward re-review after software or model changes.

The full analysis, with every source linked, is on Machine Front.

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