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Harmattan AI and Morocco's defense administration signed agreements to develop and produce IRIFI, an autonomous long-range strike drone capable of executing missions up to 2,000 km without continuous human supervision. The system's high autonomy for lethal operations poses credible risks of harm if deployed or misused.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The article explicitly describes an AI system (the IRIFI drone) that autonomously navigates and executes strike missions without human intervention during execution, except for target confirmation. This autonomous weapon system's development and deployment pose credible risks of harm to people, property, and communities due to its strike capability and autonomy. Although no actual harm or incident is reported, the plausible future harm from such a system's use in military contexts meets the definition of an AI Hazard. The event is not an AI Incident because no harm has yet occurred, nor is it Complementary Information or Beneficial Use. It is not unrelated because the AI system is central to the event.[AI generated]