Commentary: When it comes to AI and weapons, the tech world needs philosophers

Silicon Valley continues to wrestle with the moral implications of its inventions — often blindsided by the public reaction to them: Google was recently criticized for its work on “Project Maven,” a Pentagon effort to develop artificial intelligence, to be used in military drones, with the ability to make distinctions between different objects captured in drone surveillance footage.The company could have foreseen that a potential end use of this technology would be fully autono